生活型

climber

形態特徵

• Large ligneous climber. Young shoots clothed with a rust-colored pubescence.
• Leaves round-cordate, nearly smooth above, acuminate, 5–15 cm long, 4–13 cm wide; stipules orbicular-ovate, adnate, with gibbose center and scariose margins.
• Cymes opposite to leaves, on villous peduncles, as long as petioles. Flowers numerous, small, usually drooping.
• Berry succulent, smooth, black; seeds usually solitary or 2 in each berry, ovoid, the lower end beaked.
• It has been frequently misidentified as <i>Cissus repens</i> Lam. but it can be readily distinguished from it by its rust-colored pubescence on young shoots and by its bristle-serrate leaves.

分布

• 台灣 : found in the southern part and on Is. Lanyu.
• 世界 : East India, Indo-China; Malaysia to the Philippine Islands.

引證標本

PINGTUNG: Lu & Ou 7884. TAITUNG: Is. Lanyu, Sasaki s. n. 1926.

引用文獻

• LU, FU- YUAN, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 3: 701. 1993.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit., 台灣植物誌第二版)