生活型

shrub

形態特徵

• A scandent shrub up to 8 m high.
• Leaves thick-coriaceous, glabrous, ovate-lanceolate, 3.5–5.5 cm long, 1.2–2 cm wide, acuminate, crenate-serrate, concolored, the midrib impressed above and raised beneath; petioles about 1 cm long.
• Flowers axillary or terminal, solitary or in a few-Flowered raceme, usually at the base of spines, about 1 cm in diameter; pedicels 6–7 mm long, with glandular bracts at base; calyx 5-lobed, the lobes nearly rounded; petals 5, white, rounded, about 5 mm across; stamens about 30, attached to the disc in several rows; carpel 1, superior, sessile, l-celled, 2-ovulate, the style lateral, the stigma dilated.

分布

• 台灣 : In thickets, common in central mountains at 1,500–3,000 m altitudes.

引證標本

HSINCHU: Tapachienshan, Ying 1803. TAICHUNG: Pahsienshan, Liu et al. 308. NANTOU: Hohuanshan, Ying 1736. TAITUNG; Kuanshan, Su 845*.

引用文獻

• OHASHI, HIROYOSHI, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 3: 96. 1993.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit., 台灣植物誌第二版)