生活型

tree

形態特徵

• Small trees; branches and branchlets slender, grayish brown, pubescent when young; leaf-buds linear-acuminate, densely villous.
• Leaves thin-coriaceous, lanceolate, 3.5–5 cm long, 1.2–1.5 cm wide, apex caudate-acuminate or acute, obtuse at the summit, base cuneate, margins minutely serrulate, upper surface glabrous except for the hirsute midrib, slightly appressed pilose beneath; petioles 1–2 mm long or subsessile.
• Flowers axillary; pedicels 4–6 mm long, glabrous; bracteoles 2–3, triangular, 1 mm long; sepals 5, persistent, semiorbicular, 1.5 mm long, glabrous; petals 5–6, connate at base, outer ones ovate-rounded, 6–8 mm in diameter, inner ones obovate-rounded, 10 mm long, 8–9 mm wide, apex rounded or emarginate, glabrous, margins ciliate; stamens numerous, filaments more or less connate at base, 7–10 mm long, sparsely hirsute, anthers cordate, 1.5 mm long, apex apiculate; ovary oblong, glabrous; styles glabrous, 8–10 mm long, 3-fid at apex.
• Fruit globose, 1 cm in diameter, mucronate, 2-seeded.

分布

• 台灣 : in the central part of the island.

引證標本

TAICHUNG: Tungmaoshan, Huang 600. NANTOU: Lienhuachih, Yamamoto & Mori s. n. CHIAYI: Mingetu, Kanehira & Sasaki s. n.

引用文獻

• HSIEH, CHANG-FU, LING, LAI-KUAN and YANG, KUOH-CHENG, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 2: 672. 1996.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit., 台灣植物誌第二版)