生活型

shrub

形態特徵

• A shrub; branches tomentose.
• Leaves thin-membranaceous, oblong-lanceolate, 14–20 cm long, 3–4.5 cm broad, acuminate, cuneate at base, remotely serrulate, dark and scabrid-pilose above, dark and tomentose especially along the midrib beneath, the midrib and veins distinct and raised beneath, the lateral veins 7 or 8 per side, arcuate-ascending; petioles 1–2 cm long, tomentulose.
• Inflorescence a terminal umbellately arranged cyme about 9 cm long and 14 cm broad, tomentulose, with large densely tomentulose bracts at base; outer flowers sterile, with 4 petaloid sepals, sepals broadly orbicular to 17 mm across, strongly nerved, rounded at apex, shortly contracted below, tomentulose on both surfaces.
• Capsules hemispherical, slightly compressed laterally, tomentulose; styles persistent, recurved at apex.

分布

• 台灣 : In forests at low to high altitudes in the northern and eastern parts.

引證標本

HUALIEN: Tienhsiang, Shimizu & Kao 101506; Wenshan, Huang 9879. ILAN: Tayuanshan, Kao 3194; Nan-shan to chiliting, Hsu 5820.

參考文獻

• KAO, MUH-TSUE, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 3: 50. 1993.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)