生活型

shrub

形態特徵

• A shrub or small tree to 10 m high; branches stout, pubescent.
• Leaves thin-chartaceous, elliptic or ovate, 5–12 cm long, 3–8.5 cm broad, acuminate, rounded at base, serrate, dark and sparingly pubescent or nearly glabrous above, pale and setose-pubescent beneath especially along the veins, the midrib and veins slender, slightly raised below, the lateral veins 6–7 per side; petioles 3–5 cm long, slender, sulcate, slightly pubescent.
• Inflorescence a large terminal panicle 12–25 cm long, slightly pubescent; sterile flowers with 4 white sepals, sepals elliptic to orbicular, about 1.3 cm across, truncate at apex, entire to slightly denticulate, white, becoming purplish.
• Capsules hemispherical, about 4 mm across, with sepals at about the middle.

分布

• 台灣 : at altitudes around 1,400 m.
• 世界 : Sakhalien, Japan, and southeastern China.

引證標本

TAIPEI: Peichatienshan, Li 3539. HSINCHU: Yeuyanhu, Huang 5483. TAICHUNG: Hsinshan, Liu et al. 337. ILAN: Taipingshan, Chuang et al. 4792.

參考文獻

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