生活型

shrub

形態特徵

• A glabrous evergreen shrub; branches decussate.
• Leaves coriaceous, persistent, obovate-oblong, 7–15 cm long, 2–6 cm broad, acute, acute to obtuse at base, entire, the midrib impressed above, raised beneath, the lateral veins 7 or 8 per side, indistinct above, slender and distinct beneath; petioles 1.5–3 cm long.
• Inflorescence a terminal panicle 15–25 cm or more long, the bracts few, linear-lanceolate; flowers small, the pedicels about 5 mm long; calyx-tube adnate to the ovary, about 1.5 mm long, the lobes 4–5, minute; petals 4–5, white, calyptrate, about 2.5 mm long, stamens 8–10, the filaments elongate; ovary inferior, 4–6-celled, styles stout, with a much dilated and lobed stigma.
• Capsule hemispherical, about 4 mm long, strongly ribbed, truncate, with a persistent style.

分布

• 台灣 : in the central mountains at medium altitudes.
• 世界 : Eastern India, southern China, and the Ryukyus.

引證標本

TAIPEI: Shihting, Hsu 3252; Huayuanhsinchen, Kuo 9868*. ILAN: Nanshan, Yamazaki 929; Taipingshan, Suzuki s. n. 1925. TAOYUAN: Fusing, Kuo 11037. TAICHUNG: Pahsienshan, Tashima s. n. 1932. NANTOU: Chitou, Hsu 5098. KAOHSIUNG: Wuwei, Matuda s. n. 1919. PINGTUNG: Kuskus, Keng 1321.

參考文獻

• KAO, MUH-TSUE, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 3: 57. 1993.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)