Capparis sikkimensis subsp. formosana

山柑

Capparis sikkimensis Kurz subsp. formosana (Hemsl.) Jacobs

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相關資訊

Jacobs. 1965. Blumea 12(3): 497.

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Capparis formosana Hemsl.

Hemsl. 1895. Annals of Botany. Oxford 9: 145. (Ann. Bot. (Oxford))
Capparis kanehirai Hayata ex kanehira

Hayata ex kanehira. 1936. Formosan trees : indigenous to the island (revised) 235. (Formos. Trees rev. ed.)

Yang. 1982. A list of plants in Taiwan. (List Pl. Taiwan)
Yeh-Ching Liu, Fu-Yuan Lu & Chern-Hsiung Ou. 1994. Trees of Taiwan revised. (Tr. Taiwan rev. ed.)

climber

Climbers 4.5–6 m tall; young branchlets with simple, pale to red-brown hairs, glabrescent, without scales, often with dull purplish brown tinge when dry; thorns wanting or present and recurved, up to 6 mm long.
Leaves subcoriaceous to coriaceous, persistent, oblong, 7.5–18 cm long, 3.3–7.5 cm wide, rounded, sometimes narrower at apex, often with an abruptly short acuminate or small callous tip, acutish at base, midrib flat to shallowly grooved, lateral veins 6–8 pairs, thin, veinlets rather obscure, dull glossy, glabrescent above; petioles 1–2 cm long.
Flowers 3–8(–20), in axillary subumbels, rarely in terminal panicles or solitary; peduncles to 10 cm long, angular; pedicels 1.7–5.5 cm long, hairy; sepals subcoriaceous, 0.7–2.1 cm long, 0.5–1.5 cm wide, with dense brown hairs outside, the outer pair very concave, free in bud; petals obovate, 1.2–2.8 cm long 0.5–0.8 cm wide, hairy inside, white; torus 2–5 mm wide; stamens 30–120, pinkish; gynophore 3–3.5 cm long, glabrous; ovary 2–4 mm long, 1.5–2 mm wide, glabrous, placentas 4. Stipe 0.3–1.1 cm long.
Berry globose, ellipsoid or ovoid, often umbonate or pointed, 4–6.5 cm long, 4–5.5 cm wide, deep purple, pericarp to 1 cm thick, smooth, often sculptured; seeds 1.6–2.1 cm long, 1–1.5 cm wide.

台灣 : in shady forests and open thickets, often along streams in the southern part and on the Hengchun Pennisula in Taiwan.
世界 : The Ryukyus?, Guangdong and Hainan. The typical phase occurs in Sikkim, eastern Himalaya.