生活型

shrub

形態特徵

• A glabrous scandent shrub,reaching a length of 10 m or more, the branches armed with short, stout, hooked prickles.
• Leaves bipinnate, 20–30 cm long, the rachis armed with recurved spines beneath; leaflets of 2–3-pairs, coriaceous, shining, ovate to elliptic-ovate, 2–5 cm long. Panicles terminal, many-Flowered;
• Flowers yellow, racemosely arranged, about 1 cm long.
• Pods 4–5 cm long, 2.5–3 cm broad, beaked, hard, glabrous, indehiscent. Seed 1, subglobose.

分布

• 台灣 : widespread but more especially in thickets near the seashore.
• 世界 : India, Malaysia, China, the Ryukyus and Japan.

引證標本

HSINCHU: Hsienjiaoshih, Huang & Huang 12699; Chupei-village, Ohashi & Nemoto 17297. TAINAN: Tsenwen Dam, Huang & Yang 4402. PINGTUNG: Kenting, Huang & Kao 14022.

參考文獻

• Huang, S. F. & T. C. Huang, Taiwania 32(1): 11-118. 1987.
• Huang, S. F. & T. C. Huang, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 3: 177. .  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit., 台灣植物誌第二版)