生活型

tree

形態特徵

• An evergreen small tree, up to 8 m high, young branchlets with golden yellow hairs;
• Leaflets (5-)7(–9), opposite, the apex acute to obtuse, the base acute to round or slightly emarginate, the first pairs oblong to oblong-lanceolate, 1.5–4 cm long, 0.8–2 cm broad, the terminal one obovate-lanceolate, 4–12 cm long, 3–5 cm broad, with golden yellowish hairs beneath when young; petiole pulvinous.
• Inflorescences terminal receme, rarely axillary, with golden yellowish hairs; calyx campanulate, as half long as corolla, 5-lobed, the lobe broad ovate, about 3 mm long, covered with golden yellowish hairs, calyx tube 2 mm long; corolla reddish purple, 1 cm long, with claws 2 mm long, the standard 6 mm long, rectangular orbicular, 9 mm wide, apex wider than base, emarginate at apex, the wing midrib veins along margin; ovary long pilose hairy along suture; stamens 10, free or two pairs fused at base of filaments; pistils glabrous, the stigma terminal, reflexed inwardly, bilobed dehiscent, glabrous.
• Fruits 1–3-seeded, flatly oblong when 2–3-seeded, the fruiting stalk 3–5 mm long, the gynophore in fruit 3–5 mm long; seeds angled and pale red; hilum 3–4 mm long.

分布

• 台灣 : Endemic, only found in the Hengchun Peninsula of the southern part of Taiwan at altitudes of 200 to 500 m high at forest margin or stream bank.

引證標本

PINGTUNG: Motan, Chung 4929; Pitanshan, Huang & Huang 13546; Nanjenshan, Huang & Huang, 13533*; Yang 3846 (Holotype), Ohashi et al. 14232.

引用文獻

• Huang, S. F. & T. C. Huang, Taiwania 32(1): 11-118. 1987.
• Huang, S. F. & T. C. Huang, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 3: 348. .  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit., 台灣植物誌第二版)