Grewia piscatorum

小葉捕魚木

Grewia piscatorum Hance

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特徵描述

典藏標本

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相關資訊

Hance. 1866. Annales des Sciences Naturelles; Botanique, sér. 5 15: 206. (Ann. Sci. Nat. Bot., sér. 5)

Yang. 1982. A list of plants in Taiwan. (List Pl. Taiwan)
Yeh-Ching Liu, Fu-Yuan Lu & Chern-Hsiung Ou. 1994. Trees of Taiwan revised. (Tr. Taiwan rev. ed.)

tree

An evergreen small tree or shrub, 3 m high or so; branches terete, greyish brown, lenticellate, glabrous; young shoots yellowish-brown, covered with stellate hairs.
. Leaves chartaceous, small, obtriangular, obovate or rhomboid, 0.6–1.2 cm long, 0.4-0.9 cm wide, rounded or obtuse at apex, tapered-acuminate at base, 3-nerved, serrate-dentate; both surfaces green, scabrous, covered with stellate hairs; nerves distinct below; petioles short, 0.1-0.15 cm long, yellowish-brown, hairy, slightly enlarged at apex; stipules 2, acerose, 0.15 cm long, brown.
Umbels solitary, opposite two leaves or occasionally axillary, covered with stellate hairs, yellowish-brown; peduncles straight, slim, 1.0–3.5 mm long, enlarged apex; pedicels 1–4, straight, slim, 3 mm long; bracteoles 2, subulate; buds, 3 mm wide in diameter, longitudinally grooved; sepals 5, elliptic-lanceolate, 4.5–5.5 mm long, 1.5 mm wide, acuminate at apex and base, hairy without, glabrous within; petals 5, oblong-ovate, 1.5–2 mm long, 0.5-0.7 mm wide, glabrous without, glandular within; glands prominently surrounded by tufted, hoary hairs; gonophore short; stamens numerous; filaments slender, 1.0–3.5 mm long; ovary ovoid, ciliate; style slender, 1.3–1.5 mm long, occasionally short; stigma slightly 2–4-lobed; style and stigma hidden among stamens.
Fruit drupaceous, 2–4-lobed, the lobes oblate, glabrous, 2-seeded; seeds semiorbicular, 5.0 x 2.5 mm.