生活型

shrub

形態特徵

• A shrub, with pubescent angulate young shoots.
• Leaves ovate, elliptic or rhombic-obovate, about 2.5 cm long, 2 cm wide, obtuse at apex, broadly cuneate at base, sparsely crenate-serrate toward the apex, glabrous above, pale beneath, slightly-hairy on the veins.
• Flowers 15–20, in terminal umbellate racemes; pedicels about 1 cm long, slender; calyx rotate-obconical, glabrous outside, pubescent inside, the lobes 5, triangular, about 1 mm long; petals 5, broadly rounded, about 2 mm long, 3 mm wide, the apex emarginate; stamens about 20, the filaments glabrous, about 2 mm long; carpels 5, the ovary pubescent, the style glabrous, 1.5 mm long.

分布

• 台灣 : Endemic. Known only from the limestone area along the eastern coast near Hualien.

引證標本

HUALIEN: Hayata & Sasaki s. n. April, 1917.

參考文獻

• OHASHI, HIROYOSHI. 1993. Flora of Taiwan, second edition 3: 154. (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)