生活型

shrub

形態特徵

• A scandent shrub; stems pale grayish appressed-pubescent and with reddish long setose hairs (2–3 mm long); prickles few, about 2mm long, basally dilated, curved.
• Leaves simple, chartaceous, orbicular to ovate in outline, 5–9 cm across, the apex short-acute, the base broadly to deeply cordate, unevenly dentate, the base 5-nerved, nerves slightly impressed above, prominent beneath, upper surface dark and slightly hirsute especially along the nerves, lower surface greyish, densely appressed-pubescent beneath; petioles 1.5–3 cm long, indumentum as stems; stipules linear-lanceolate, 5–9 mm long, lacerate to pinnatipartite, outside hirsute with some setose glandular hairs, inside shortly hirsute.
• Inflorescence a large much branched panicle up to 25 cm long, bracts similar to stipules; pedicels 5–20 mm long; calyx cupular, 5–7 mm across, the lobes triangular-ovate, 3–5 mm long, the apex acute to acuminate, outside whitish appressed-pubescent, with several reddish setose glandular hairs, inside densely puberulous; petals white, orbicular, 3–4 mm across, both surfaces shortly hirsute, not clawed; filaments 3–4 mm long, glabrous; pistils 4–5 mm long, glabrous.
• Collective fruits globose, loose, 5–9 mm across.

分布

• 台灣 : Endemic to the eastern part in altitude at 700–2,500 m.

引證標本

ILAN: Ssuyuanakou, Huang 7321; Chilitien, Yamazaki et al. 699. HUALIEN: Holiu to Batakan, Hosokawa 5073a; Luanshan, Hsu 3558.

引用文獻

• OHASHI, HIROYOSHI, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 3: 69. 1993.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit., 台灣植物誌第二版)