生活型

tree

形態特徵

• Trees to 25 m high, the branchlets stellate-lepidote when young.
• Leaves elliptic to oblong-elliptic, sometimes obovate, about 3–7 cm long, 2–3 cm broad, acute or obtuse, narrowed at base, usually entire, glabrous, the secondary veins about 6 per side, inconspicuous; petioles 3–8 mm long, lepidote.
• Raceme 1.5–4 cm long, up to 8 cm long in fruit; bracts ovate or oblong, lepidote, about 4 cm long; sepals variable, about 3 mm long, stellate-lepidote; stamens up to 6, the anthers red, to 4 mm long, apiculate.
• Capsules ovoid, 2-pointed, about 1 cm long, densely stellate or pubescent.

分布

• 台灣 : on the southern tip and Is. Lanyu only, apparently rare.
• 世界 : Korea, Japan to the Ryukyus.

引證標本

PINGTUNG: S. Cape, Henry 980. TAITUNG: Is. Lanyu, Chang 17127.

參考文獻

• LI, HUI-LIN and HSIEH, CHANG-FU, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 3: 4. 1993.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)