生活型

tree

形態特徵

• A small Tree; branches and branchlets terete, glabrous.
• Leaves elliptic or oblong, 8–12 cm long, 3–6 cm broad, apex acuminate or cuspidate, base cuneate, minutely serrate, glabrous, midrib impressed above, elevated beneath; petioles 5–7 mm long.
• Flowers terminal or axillary, solitary or in pairs, sessile, white, 2–2.5 across; bracts and sepals 5 to 6, up to 1.2 cm long, pubescent outside; petals 5–6, obovate-elliptic, 1.5–2 cm long, glabrous; filaments glabrous; ovary densely pilose; styles 3, free, 1–1.4 cm long, pilose.
• Fruits globose, 2.5–3.5 cm across, scurfy on surface.

分布

• 台灣 : in central and southern parts at low to medium altitudes.
• 世界 : S & SE China, Vietnam and Laos.

引證標本

NANTOU: Lienhuachih, Keng et al. s. n. 1954. CHIAYI: Yentzuyai, Chen 332. PINGTUNG: Weiliaoshan, Su 613, 614.

參考文獻

• HSIEH, CHANG-FU, LING, LAI-KUAN and YANG, KUOH-CHENG, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 2: 669. 1996.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)