生活型

climber

形態特徵

• Large climber, glabrous throughout.
• Leaves variable, simple-pinnate with 3–5 leaflets or bipinnate with the lower pinnae bearing 3–5 leaflets each and the upper ones consisting of a single one; leaflets ovate or ovate-oblong, coarsely dentate, subcoriaceous, shortly petiolulate or subsessile, obtuse, round or cordate at base; 10–20 cm long, more or less glaucous beneath.
• Cymes corymbose, dichotomous, pedunculate; petals 5, spreading, disk cup-shaped; usually long-pedunculate.
• Berry obovoid-globose, 1–2-seeded.

分布

• 台灣 : abundant at low altitudes throughout the island.
• 世界 : Eastern Asia from India, Indo-China to southern China, Japan and the Ryukyus.

引證標本

TAIPEI: Simizu 073059. HSINCHU: Suzuki 117132. MIAOLI: Cholan, Liu & Kao s. n. 1957. NANTOU: Shuishe, Sasaki s. n. 1922.

參考文獻

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