生活型

tree

形態特徵

• Trees; trunk in young trees and branches inermous or spinous; bark grey or brown, not flaky into thin lamels; young branches finely pubescent.
• Leaves ovate-elliptic, tip pronounced 1–2 cm, base broadly wedge-shaped to rounded or slightly cordate, 2.5–15 cm long, 1.5–8 cm broad, shining above, large ones often pubescent on both sides of midrib, young ones brown; petioles 0.2–1 cm long.
• Flowers 4-several in finely pubescent, axillary racemes, unisexual, greenish white; sepals 3–6, pubescent on both surfaces; stamens numerous, 3–4 mm long; disk in staminate and pistillate flowers broken up into many glands; styles 5–8, free, persistent.
• Drupe glabose or depressed-globose, 2–2.5 cm long in diameter, often drying strongly ridged, crowned by a ring of small, wide apart styles.

分布

• 台灣 : In thickets in the Lanyu and rarely cultivated as a fruit tree in southern part of Taiwan.

引證標本

TAITUNG: Lanyu, Ou et al. 8005*, Huang et al. 10599.

引用文獻

• LI, HUI-LIN and LO, HANN-CHUNG, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 3: 796. .  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit., 台灣植物誌第二版)