生活型

tree

形態特徵

• Small Trees; branches and branchlets terete, glabrous.
• Leaves thickly coriaceous, obovate-elliptic, 4–5.5 cm long, 2–2.5 cm broad, acute or obtuse at apex, cuneate at base, loosely serrate in upper half, glabrous on both surfaces, the midrib elevated above, lateral veins slightly impressed above, indistinct beneath; petioles 4–6 mm long.
• Flowers terminal, sessile, solitary or in pairs, white, 2.5 cm across; bracts 3–4; sepals orbicular, 4–5 mm long, pubescent outside; petals elliptic-obovate; 2 cm long, 6 mm wide, emarginate, cuneate at base, glabrous; stamens numerous, anthers versatile, filaments glabrous, 0.5–1 cm long; ovary subglobose, 1.5 mm long, densely pilose; styles 5 mm long, glabrous, 3-fid at apex.

分布

• 台灣 : confined to the southernmost part of Taiwan.

引證標本

PINGTUNG: Nanjenshan, Peng 3464, Chang 4673.

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.)