生活型

shrub

形態特徵

• A small shrub; stem hookedly hairy or glabrous.
• Leaves ovate or lanceolate, 5-nerved, with one pair of veins extending from above the base, acuminate at apex, obtuse or rounded at base, minutely serrate at margin, 4–11 cm long 1.5–4.2 cm broad, sparsely hairy on both surfaces, veinlets distinct beneath; petioles 6–45 mm long, sometimes hookedly hairy.
• Inflorescence terminal cymose; peduncles 3–6 cm long; bracts setaceous; calyx lobes 4, broadly triangular at base, setaceous at the apex, 22 mm long; stamens unequal, 4 longer and 4 shorter, the longer stamens opposite the calyx lobes; filaments flat; anthers attenuate at the apex, 7–8 mm long; shorter stamens with the anthers 4 mm long; style glabrous, 10 mm long; stigma terminal.
• Fruit capsular, campanulate, tetragona, 4–5 mm across, 6–7 mm long.

分布

• 台灣 : Endemic, in the southern part under forest at altitude 700–2,100 m.

引證標本

KAOHSIUNG: inter Matuyama & Mutozan, Suzuki s. n. 1932. PINGTUNG: 25 compartment, Huang & Kao 5427; Tawushan, Huang, Huang et al. 13585; Sakanyalan-Tawu, Ying 1517 (Type of B. penduliflora, NTUF!).

參考文獻

• HUANG, SHING-FAN and HUANG, TSENG-CHIENG, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 3: 911. .  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)