生活型

shrub

形態特徵

• A low shrub; branchlets more or less pubescent.
• Leaves papyriferous, ovate to obovate, variable in size, about 1–1.5 cm long, 7–9 mm broad, more or less rounded at both ends, glabrous on both surfaces, dark above, pale beneath, the lateral veins 5–7 per side, parallel, prominent; petioles pubescent, about 1 mm long.
• Inflorescence terminal or axillary, racemose or fasciculate, 2–3 or more-flowered, more or less pubescent; flowers white, sepals 5, linear, about 1.5 mm long; petioles lanceolate, about 2.5 mm long.
• Drupe ovoid, bluish black, 6–7 mm long, 5–6 mm broad; pedicels 4–5 mm long.
• Like <i>Berchemia formosana</i>, this is a very variable plant.

分布

• 台灣 : from open scrub land along the seashore to forests on mountain slopes.
• 世界 : S. China, Tonkin to the Ryukyus.

引證標本

TAIPEI: Kungliao, Lin 10720. ILAN: Tali, Kuo 1083. HSINCHU: Hsienchiaoshih, Sasaki s. n. 1927. MIAOLI: Lungken, Kao 7394. PINGTUNG: Santimen, Ou 10840. TAITUNG: Sanhsientai, Lin 10996.

參考文獻

• LIU, YEH-CHING, LU,FU-YUEN, OU, CHERN-HSIUNG and WANG, CHIOU-MEEI. 1993. Flora of Taiwan, second edition 3: 682. (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)