生活型

shrub

形態特徵

• A small deciduous shrub; branchlets slender, densely silky-pubescent when young.
• Leaves alternate, chartaceous, elliptic-oblong, 2–5 cm long, 0.1-0.5 cm broad, acute at apex, silky pubescent on the veins beneath, the lateral veins 3–4 on either side of the midrib; petiloes 2–3 mm long.
• Flowers lilac, 3–7 in terminal, subtended by lanceloate bracts, in short racemes; calyx-tube slender, about 1 cm long, silky pubescent outside, the lobes 4, ovate-elliptic, obtuse at apex, about 3 mm long; stamens 8 in 2-rows, the filaments very short, the anthers linear-lanceolate. Ovary ovate-oblong, about 4–5 mm long, densely pubescent, the stigma capitate, the style very short.

分布

• 台灣 : Taiwan, on mountain slopes at low altitudes in northern and eastern parts of the island.
• 世界 : Widely distributed in China.

引證標本

ILAN: Tuchan, Kao 6797. TAICHUNG: Kawakami & Mori 1836.

參考文獻

• CHANG, CHING-EN, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 3: 773. .  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)