生活型

shrub

形態特徵

• Climbing shrubs to 7 m long; branches reddish-brown, with pale oblong to lanceolate lenticels, rusty tomentose on young branchlets; pith solid, whitish, becoming hollow in center in age.
• Leaves chartaceous, oblong-lanceolate when young, broadly ovate or suborbicular in age, ca. 5.5-11 cm long, 3-9 cm broad, acuminate at the apex, cuneate or rounded to reniform-cordate at the base, subentire with remote minute callose teeth, upper surface glabrate or puberulous, lower surface pale appressed stellate tomentose, lateral veins ca. 6 or 7 per side; petioles 2-4 cm long, tomentose.
• Inflorescences axillary or lateral, 10- or more flowered, 2 or 3 times branched cymes, densely rusty stellate-tomentose; peduncles 1.5-8 cm long, forked at top; pedicels 0.5-1.5 cm long, often elongating and enlarging in fruit; bracts minute, linear; flowers brownish yellow; sepals 5, ovate, ca. 4-5 mm long, 3-4 mm broad; petals 5, ca. 6-8 cm long, 3-4 mm broad, obtuse to rounded, pubescent outside; ovary globose, ca. 2 mm long, densely pilose, styles 2-3 mm long, slender.
• Fruit subglobose to ovoid, 3-4 cm long, 2-3 cm across, brown, spotted, glabrous at maturity or pubescent at base and apex only.

分布

• 台灣 : in thickets, 500-1,500 m.
• 世界 : Western and southern China, Vietnam, Malaysia and Cambodia.

引證標本

TAOYUAN: Lalashan, Leu 2045. TAICHUNG: Lileng forest road, Shen 602. NANTOU: Lien-hwa-chih, Lu 16482. CHIAYI: Suisha, Hayata 16697 (Type of A. gnaphalocarpa, TAIF). TAITUNG: Tai-ma-li, Wang et al. 8762.

引用文獻

• PENG, JEN-JYE and LU, FU-YUAN, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 2: 659. 1996.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit., 台灣植物誌第二版)