生活型

undershrub

形態特徵

• A lower subshrub up to 10 cm high; stems short.
• Leaves imparipinnate, up to 10 cm long; leaflets 9–15, elliptic to broadly oblong, 5–12 mm long, terminal leaflets usually larger, acute to truncate at apex, cuneate to rounded at base, the margins serrate, becoming entire toward the base, the midrib and veins impressed above, raised beneath, glabrous on both surfaces, but slightly hirsute on the midrib beneath; petioles 1–3 cm long, glabrous, prickly; rachis reddish, grooved above, glabrous and prickly; stipules linear-lanceolate, up to 1 cm long, glabrous.
• Flowers solitary or in pair; pedicels 1.5–3.5 cm long, prickly, glabrous; calyx-lobes ovate-triangular, 6–8 mm long, the apex caudate-acuminate, outside nearly glabrous or tomentose on the margin, inside tomentose; petals elliptic to ovate, 7–10 mm long, obtuse or rounded, sparsely hairy.
• Collective fruits globose, up to 1.2 cm across, exocarp red when ripe.

分布

• 台灣 : Endemic. Common in the central mountains at medium to high altitudes.

引證標本

TAOYUAN: Lalashan, Suzuki 11701. HSINCHU: Yuenyanghu, Hsu 14541. TAICHUNG: Susuyuan, Hosokawa 2390. KAOHSIUNG: Tienchu to Yiakou, Huang et al. 8949. HUALIEN: Tayulien to Tsuen, Huang 174. ILAN: Taipingshan, Ou & Kao 8970.

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)