生活型

tree

形態特徵

• Tree. Leaf-crown in young trees conspicuously layered.
• Leaves oval-obovate, broadly rounded, mostly shortly obtusely acuminate, mature ones glabrous, lower surface mostly bearing a gland near base of midrib on either side, with acarodomatia in many nerve-axils, coriaceous, not dotted, turning red shortly before falling off, 13–30 cm by 8–18 cm long; petioles 0.8–1 cm long.
• Spikes 12–20 cm long, bisexual flowers in lower part, staminate ones above; receptacle in perfect flower 4–7 mm long, at first finely pubescent, glabrescent; calyx-lobes glabrous inside; stamens in both kind of flowers much exserting.
• fruit 2-angular, 5–6 cm by 3–3.5 cm long, often dark red; kernel edible.
• Fruit dispersed by ocean current.

分布

• 台灣 : Along southern coasts and the Island Lanyu.
• 世界 : Tropical Old World.

引證標本

TAIPEI: Cult. in Botanic Garden, Chen 7801*, Mori s. n. 1942. KAOHSIUNG: Henry 111, Kawakami & Shimada 112. PINGTUNG: Hengchun, Kawakami 1679; South Cape, Price 659. TAITUNG: Lanyu, Liu & Keng 14.

參考文獻

• LI, HUI-LIN and LO, HANN-CHUNG, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 3: 935. .  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)