生活型

shrub

形態特徵

• A small shrub; stem glabrous or with sparse hooked and straight hairs.
• Leaves lanceolate, elliptic or ovate, acuminate to obtuse at apex, obtuse or truncate at base, minutely rough serrate at margin, 5-nerved, with one pair of veins ex¬tending from above the base, 5.5–11 cm long, 1.1–4.2 cm broad, glabrous on both surfaces; petioles 0.8–3.5 cm long.
• Inflorescence terminal cymose; peduncles tough, 0.5–2 cm long; calyx lobes 4, ovate-triangular, apex obtuse, 1.5 mm long; stamens 8, 4 longer, 4 shorter, longer stamens with anthers 5–6 mm long, short stamens with anthers 3 mm long; style glabrous, about 6mm long, stigma terminal.
• Fruit capsular, tetragonal, 5–6 across, 8–10 mm long.

分布

• 台灣 : Endemic. In open forest, forest margin at altitude 100–12,00 m.

引證標本

TAIPEI: Pinglin, Kuo 8107; Tatunshan, Huang 1585. ILAN: Bonbonshan, Kao 5934; Way to Shenmi Lake, Huang & Huang 13396. PINGTUNG: Nanjenshan, Huang 4869; Machia, Huang 7381. TAITUNG: Taimali, Huang 10338; Chihpen, Huang 8825. HUALIEN: Hoping forest road, Tang 1744.

參考文獻

• HUANG, SHING-FAN and HUANG, TSENG-CHIENG, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 3: 912. .  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)