生活型

tree

形態特徵

• Trees; branches pubescent when young.
• Leaves thin-coriaceous, oblong or obovate, 8–12 cm long, 3.5–4.5 cm wide, apex acute or acuminate with obtuse tip, base cuneate, margins serrate toward apex, entire downwards, midrib impressed above, veinlets elevated and reticulated beneath; petioles 6–8 mm long.
• Flowers white, solitary, axillary; pedicels 3–4 mm long, pilose, bracts semiorbicular, densely sericeo-pubescent outside; sepals 5, deciduous, unequal, orbicular, 4–7 mm in diameter, densely sericeo-pubescent outside; petals 5, unequal, connate at the base, outer ones obovate-oblong, 1–1.5 cm long, emarginate at apex, sericeo-pubescent without on the central part of the surface; stamens numerous, connate at base, 7–9 mm long; ovary densely sericeo-pubescent; style 1, 7–8 mm long.
• Fruit spherical, 3-lobed, 1.2–1.8 cm long, silky pubescent; seeds 2–3 (usually 3) in each valve, compressed, ca. 1 cm long.

分布

• 台灣 : Taiwan, in northern and central parts of the island.

引證標本

TAIPEI: Chihsingshan, Kuoh 2197; Peichatienshan, Yang 641. ILAN: Mt. Chihliangchiu, Huang 1143. TAICHUNG: Tashueshan Logging Road, Su 628. NANTOU: Lienhuachih, Yamamoto 4791.

引用文獻

• HSIEH, CHANG-FU, LING, LAI-KUAN and YANG, KUOH-CHENG, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 2: 689. 1996.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit., 台灣植物誌第二版)