生活型

vine

形態特徵

• Vigorous climber, glabrous or pubescent. This variety has its leaf-base subtruncate or slightly subcordate, and the leaf-blade ovate or 3-lobed; leaf is brown when dried.
• Leaves alternate, simple, the base cordate or round or subtruncate, ovate or slightly 3-lobed, sinuate-repand or coarsely crenate-dentate, blades 3–12 cm long, 2.8 cm wide; petioles 2–6 cm long.
• Cymes corymbiform, 1.5–3.5 cm long or longer, pedunculate, dicho¬tomous, glabrous. Flowers minute, 1–2 mm across; calyx obtusely 5-dentate, about 0.5 mm long; petals 1.5 mm long; discs cupular; stamens 5; styles filiform, persistent.
• Berry globose, about 5 mm across, blue, punctate, 3–4 seeded; seeds smooth, triangular-ovoid, about 3.5 mm long, 2.5–3 mm wide and thick, with a very short beak.

分布

• 台灣 : found throughout the island in thickets at low altitudes.
• 世界 : Southern China and the Philippines.

引證標本

TAIPEI: Chuang 07305; Chen s. n. 1961*. ILAN: Taipingshan, Suzuki s. n. 1925. HSINCHU: Simada 16075. TAOYUAN: Sasaki 16077. MIAOLI: Liu et al. 007874. TAICHUNG: Sasaki 073314. NANTOU: Toushe, Yamamoto & Mori 8537. CHANGHUA: Pakuashan, Morimoto 525. CHIAYI: Lu 32115. TAINAN: Morimoto 073056. KAOHSIUNG: Chinchutang, Hsu et al. 1541. PINGTUNG: Is. Hsiaoliuchiu, Hosokawa 18743; Ako, Nakazawa s. n. 1934. TAITUNG: Is. Lanyu, Huang & Kao 128670; Is. Lutao, Chang 4051.

參考文獻

• LU, FU- YUAN, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 3: 697. 1993.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)