生活型

shrub

形態特徵

• An erect shrub; stems brownish, tomentose when young, unarmed or with a few small prickles (up to 1 mm long).
• Leaves simple, thinly coriaceous, broadly ovate to orbicular, 5–15 cm long; 5–14 cm wide, shallowly 3–5-lobed, acute to obtuse, broadly cordate and 5-nerved at base, unevenly serrate; venation reticulate, nerves and veins impressed above, raised and prominent beneath; upper surface dark, hairy, especially on the nerves, lower surface yellowish brown, tomentose; petioles 2–4 cm long; stipules oblong, 1–2 cm long, entire to pinnatipartite, hairy outside.
• Inflorescence an axillary or terminal raceme, up to 10 cm long; pedicels 3–5 mm long, densely villose; bracts elliptic to transversely elliptic, dentate especially in the upper part, hairy outside; calyx cupular, the lobes triangular to ovate, 5–8 mm long, the apex acute to pointed, the outer lobes often with a few teeth, outside densely woolly, inside tomentellous; petals orbicular, 5–7 mm across, clawed, white, glabrous or with few hairs outside; filaments 3–4 mm long, with a few to several long hairs on top of anther; pistil 4–7 mm long, glabrous.

分布

• 台灣 : Taiwan, common at low to medium altitudes.
• 世界 : Southern China.

引證標本

TAIPEI: Pahsishan, Chuang et al. 2746. ILAN: Sunchitsun, Suzuki 4927. TAOYUAN: Chiaopanshan, Suzuki 4655. TAICHUNG: Pahshieshan, from Shinshan to Malon, Liu et al. 391; Ammashan, Feung & Kao 4457. NANTOU: Tungpu, Jeng 2457. CHIAYI: Alishan, Yamamoto s. n.

參考文獻

• OHASHI, HIROYOSHI, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 3: 69. 1993.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)