生活型

shrub

形態特徵

• A climbing shrub to 4 m or more.
• Leaves chartaceous, broadly ovate, 7–10 cm long, 3.5–7 cm broad, acuminate, rounded to subcordate at base, entire, dark and minutely pilose above, soon glabrescent, pale and more or less densely tomentose beneath, the midrib and veins slightly impressed above, raised beneath, the lateral veins about 5 per side, strongly ascending, the reticulations fine, subconspicuous above, inconspicuous beneath; petioles 2–4 cm long, tomentose.
• Inflorescence a terminal corymb to 25 cm broad, white-pubescent, the outer flowers sterile; pedicels long; sepals ovate to ovate-oblong, 3–5 cm long; stamens 10; ovary inferior, 5-celled, the ovules many.

分布

• 台灣 : Climbing on rocks and trees in forests.
• 世界 : The species in western and central China, the variety endemic to Taiwan.

引證標本

ILAN: Taipingshan, Chuang 4675*; Nanhutashan, Kuo 5074. CHIAYI: Mt. Alishan, Huang & Kao 1666; Tataka to Alishan, Tamura, Shimizu & Kao 22180. KAOHSIUNG: Shihshan, Huang 6541. TAITUNG: Chuyin, Yamamoto & Mori 489. HUALIEN: Mukuashan, Kao 4128; Tailuko, Keng & Kao 2558

參考文獻

• KAO, MUH-TSUE, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 3: 62. 1993.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)