生活型

shrub

形態特徵

• An evergreen shrub; branchlets slender.
• Leaves chartaceous to coriaceous, mostly crowded at tip of branches, lanceolate, 4–12 cm long, 1.5–4 cm broad, acuminate at both ends, entire or obscurely crenulate, the lateral veins about 10 per side; petioles 5–10 mm long.
• Flowers 3–4-fasciculate, in the axils of upper leaves, 1.5–3 cm long; calyx 1–2 mm long; corolla 5 mm long; pedicels 1–1.5 cm long; ovary 2–4-carpellate.
• Capsule usually solitary, globose, 15 mm long 16 mm broad, long-mucronate at apex, dehiscing into 2–3. valves. Seeds 4–6, reddish, about 4 mm long.

分布

• 台灣 : common in broad-leaved forests at medium to high altitudes.
• 世界 : Widely distributed and common in China.

引證標本

ILAN: Pilu-stream, Huang 9809. HUALIEN: Wenshan, Huang 9877.

引用文獻

• LI, HUI-LIN and HUANG, TSENG-CHIENG, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 3: 66. 1993.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit., 台灣植物誌第二版)