生活型

tree-shrub

形態特徵

• Small Trees or shrubs; branchlets glabrous.
• Leaves thick-coriaceous, oblong-lanceolate, (3–)6–8 cm long, (1–)1.5–2.5 cm wide, apex acute, retused at the summit, base cuneate or acute, margins sharply serrulate, slightly revolute, glabrous, midrib impressed, veins distinct beneath; petioles 3–5 mm long.
• Flowers 1–3, axillary. Male flowers: pedicels 2 mm long; sepals 5, inner ones the larger, rounded, 1.5 mm in diameter; petals 5, slightly connate the base, obovate-oblong, 2–2.5 mm long; stamens 10, glabrous, filaments 1 mm long, anthers 0.6 mm long, rudimentary ovary present. Female flowers: sepals 5; petals 5, obovate, 2–2.5 mm long; ovary depressed globose, 0.5 mm long; styles 3, nearly free, 0.3 mm long.
• Fruit globose, 3–4 mm in diameter.

分布

• 台灣 : in broad-leaved and mixed forest at medium to high altitudes (1,500–3,300 m).

引證標本

TAOYUAN: Lalashan, Wang 2494. ILAN: Nanhutashan, Kuo 5196. HSINCHU: Tapachienshan, Wang et al. 4573. TAICHUNG: Paikoutashan, Liu et al. 336. NANTOU: Sunghsuelou to Chilaishan, Huang & Hsieh 4936. CHIAYI: Tungpu to Lulinshan, Chen 3824. KAOHSIUNG: Shihshan, Huang 6505. PINGTUNG: Tawushan, Suzuki 6884. TAITUNG: Kuanshanling, Huang et al. 3635.

參考文獻

• HSIEH, CHANG-FU, LING, LAI-KUAN and YANG, KUOH-CHENG, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 2: 680. 1996.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)