生活型

tree

形態特徵

• Small deciduous glabrous Trees; branchlets with whitish lenticels.
• Leaves alternate, 3-foliolate, clustered at tip of branchlets petioles, 7–17 cm long,; leaflets long obovate, entire, acute at apex, lateral leaflets rather asymmetric, 5–18 cm long, 3.5–5 cm wide, whitish beneath, lateral veins 4–7 pairs, veinlets obscure, petiolules short.
• Flowers less than 20, in short terminal corymbs, 3.5 cm long, 3.5 cm wide, yellowish white, long pedicelled; sepals 4, oblong, 0.4 cm long; disc present, petals 4, long clawed, obovate, spatulate, ca. 2 cm long; stamens numerous, attached at base of gynophore, long exserted, filaments filiform, spreading; ovary ovoid, placentas 2.
• Berries globose to ovoid, 6–7 cm long, pendulous; stipes slightly thickened, ca. 6 cm long; Seeds numerous, rounded-reniform, ca. 0.8 cm across.

分布

• 台灣 : In lowlands throughout the island, especially abundant in the northern part. The typical phase occurs in the tropics and subtropics.

引證標本

TAIPEI: Shimizu 693; Kuanyin, Fukuyama 122. ILAN: Siki, Suzuki 4925. PINGTUNG: Hengchun, Kanehira 50802.

參考文獻

• LIU, TANG-SHUI and LIAO, JIH-CHING, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 2: 743. 1996.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)