生活型

tree-shrub

形態特徵

• Shrubs to small Trees; branchlets ridged, grayish brown, pubescent, terminal budding.
• Leaves pilose. Leaves thin-coriaceous, elliptic or obovate-elliptic, 3–5 cm long, 1.5–2 cm wide, apex acute, acuminate or obtuse, base cuneate, glabrous above, midrib impressed above, elevated and slightly pilose or glabrous beneath, margins finely serrate; petioles 2–5 mm long.
• Flowers axillary, solitary or 2–3 in fascicle; bracts 2. Male flowers: pedicels 1.5–2 mm long; sepals 5, subequal, inner ones rounded-elliptic, 1.5–2 mm long, denticulate and glandulate, glabrous; petals 5, oblong, 2.5–3.5 mm long, emarginate at apex; stamens 10–15, anthers sagittate, 1 mm long, filaments filiform, 1 mm long; rudimentary ovary pubescent. Female flowers: petals 5, obovate, 2–2.5 mm long; ovary globose, styles 1–1.5 mm long, glabrous.
• Fruit black, subglobose, 5 mm in diameter.

分布

• 台灣 : nearly throughout the island, in forests at low altitudes (300–1,500 m).
• 世界 : S China.

引證標本

ILAN: Hohochi, Su 62. TAIPEI: Chihsingshan, Yang 636; Muchihshan, Wang 3020. TAOYUAN: Pinting, Shimada SH1151. MIAOLI: Houyenshan, Yang & Hsieh 3503. TAICHUNG: Anmashan, Liu et al 62. TAINAN: Kuantzuling, Mori 3221. PINGTUNG: Wutai to Ali, Kuo 10509; Nanjenshan, Kuo 9529. HUALIEN: Mt. Seikoo, Yamamoto 2196; Paliwanshan, Su 583. TAITUNG: Shoucha to Shusui-boo, Liu & Keng 2844.

參考文獻

• HSIEH, CHANG-FU, LING, LAI-KUAN and YANG, KUOH-CHENG, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 2: 679. 1996.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)