生活型

tree-shrub

形態特徵

• Shrubs to small Trees; branches and branchlets glabrous, grayish brown.
• Leaves coriaceous, oblong or oblanceolate, 7–8 cm long, 2.4–3.5 cm wide, glabrous, apex cuspidate-acuminate, obtuse at the summit, base acute or subrounded, margins minutely serrulate, revolute, midrib impressed, veins 12–15 on each side, deeply impressed above and raised beneath; petioles 1 mm long, sulcate, glabrous.
• Flowers axillary, 2–3-fascicled; pedicels 2 mm long, slender, glabrous; bracteoles 2–3. Male flowers: sepals 5, unequal, inner ones rounded, 3.5 mm in diameter; petals 5, subequal, oblong, 4–5 mm long, 3–3.5 mm wide; stamens 10, 4–5 mm long, filaments 2.5 mm long, anthers 2 mm long, rudimentary ovary elongated-conical, glabrous. Female flowers: sepals 5, imbricate, rounded, subequal, 1.5–2 mm in diameter.
• Fruit ovoid-globose, 5 mm in diameter.

分布

• 台灣 : confined to the central Taiwan.

引證標本

NANTOU: Lienhuachih, Hsieh & Kao s. n. 1955; Chingshuikou, Huang et al. 975.

參考文獻

• HSIEH, CHANG-FU, LING, LAI-KUAN and YANG, KUOH-CHENG, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 2: 684. 1996.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)