生活型

shrub

形態特徵

• A scandent glabrous shrub.
• Leaves chartaceous, ovate, 5–8 cm long, 2.5–4 cm broad, acute, obtuse at base, serrate, glabrous, 3-nerved at base, with 1 or 2 lateral veins above per side, the midrib and veins slightly impressed above, raised beneath; petioles slender, 8–12 mm long.
• Inflorescences axillary, in short cymes, flowers small, about 4 mm across; calyx funnel-shaped, 5-lobed; petals 5, triangular, white; stamens 5; ovary 5-celled. 1-ovulate; style 5-lobed.
• Capsule globose, about 8 mm across, 3-celled, each cell 1-seeded; seeds black.

分布

• 台灣 : along seashore on Hengchun Peninsula and Is. Lanyu .
• 世界 : India to Africa, Malaysia, the Philippines, Australia and the Polynesia.

引證標本

PINGTUNG: Hsiaoliuchiu, Shimada s. n. 1942*. TAITUNG: Is. Lanyu, Chang 78301.

引用文獻

• LIU, YEH-CHING, LU,FU-YUEN, OU, CHERN-HSIUNG and WANG, CHIOU-MEEI, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 3: 684. 1993.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit., 台灣植物誌第二版)