生活型

shrub

形態特徵

• Evergreen shrubs .
• Leaves 3-5-fascicled, subsessile, subcoriaceous, 3.4-6.3 cm long, 1.1-1.8 cm wide, apex acute, spinose, base acute to cuneate, margins spinose-serrate, teeth 3-8 per side, short, stout, rigid, erect-ascending spinose ca. 1 mm long.
• Flowers yellow, 7-15-fasciculate; pedicels 0.4-0.8 mm long; sepals 5 or 6, lanceolate, the innermost largest; petals 6, rarely 5, oblong-spatulate, 4-5 mm long; stamens 6, rarely 5, anthers 2-celled, opening by recurved valves; ovules 1 or rarely 2.
• Berry ellipsoid, ca. 9 mm long, 5 mm across, dark bluish, stigma subsessile.

分布

• 台灣 : Common in the central mountains at 2,200 to 3,500 m.

引證標本

TAICHUNG: Nanhutashan, Lu 24974. NANTOU: Hohuanshan, Lu 24824. CHIAYI: Yushan, Kawakami & Mori s. n. (Type, TI!); Alishan, Lu 18899.

參考文獻

• LU, SHENG-YOU and YANG, YUEN-PO, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 2: 579. 1996.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit., 台灣植物誌第二版)