生活型

shrub

形態特徵

• An evergreen shrub, 2–4 m high, the branches with conspicuous lenticels.
• Leaves alternate, ternate; petioles about 4 cm long; leaflets ovate to elliptic, 8–13 cm long, 5.5–8.5 cm broad, acute, rounded and oblique at base, coarsely serrate to crenate, glabrous on both surfaces, paler beneath, the lateral veins 7–8 pairs, spreading; petiolule 1–1.5 cm long.
• Inflorescence axillary, paniculate-racemose, unisexual, monoecious. Flowers minute, white to yellowish, about 3 mm across; sepals 4, the outer smaller; petals 4; male flower with 5–7 stamens; female flowers with 2 carpels, ovary 2-celled, with stipe above the receptacle, style bifid.
• Drupes ovoid, orange, 6–8 mm across.

分布

• 台灣 : common in thickets along sea coast of Hengchun Peninsula.
• 世界 : Polynesia, Malaysia, Hainan, the Philippines.

引證標本

PINGTUNG: Hengchun, Lu & Ou 1553; South Cape, Keng et al. 2889; Kenting, Chang s. n. 1975.

引用文獻

• CHEN, CHING-HSIA, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 3: 599. 1993.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit., 台灣植物誌第二版)