形態特徵

• A subshrub; branchlets densely pubescent.
• Leaves chartaceous, ovate, 12–20 cm long, 8–15 cm broad, the apex caudate-acuminate, the base obtuse or truncate rounded, the margins subentire, the lower surface glabrescent, densely hirsute in the axils of secondary veins; petioles 8–15 cm long, tomentose.
• Female spikes very slender, axillary, solitary, 20–25 cm long; peduncles 4–5 cm. Female flowers very remotely arranged on the rachis, sessile, 1-bracteate, the bracts small, ovate, 1 mm long, densely hirsute on the external surface; sepals 3, ovate, l mm long, concave; styles 2–5 mm long, finely branched; ovary depressed-globose, 1.5 mm across, 1.4 mm long, pubescent.
• Capsules 3-lobed, 4 mm wide; seeds ovoid, 2 mm long, 1 mm wide.

分布

• 台灣 : Endemic. Known from Hualien along the eastern coast.

引證標本

HUALIEN: Tailuko, Sasaki 1409.

參考文獻

• HUANG, TSENG-CHIENG, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 3: 422. .  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)