生活型

tree

形態特徵

• Deciduous trees to 4–5 m tall; bark smooth, scaly; branches glabrous.
• Leaves thick coriaceous, 6–8 cm long, 3–4 cm broad, apex acute, base obtuse or nearly round, entire, midrib and veins on lower surface raised, pubescent, lateral veins 6–8 pairs; petiole 3–10 mm long, nearly glabrous.
• Racemes axillary, nearly glabrous, 5–10 cm long, often subtended by few leafy bracts near base; pedicel 3–4 mm long, slightly pubescent; calyx 5-lobed nearly to base, pubescent, lobes acute; corolla long campanulate, slightly pilose; filaments long, bearing tiny spurs near apex; anthers without awns.
• Capsules globose, ca. 5 mm thick, longitudinally dehiscent.

分布

• 台灣 : high mountains (2,350–2,660 m) and also near hot, sulfur springs near Taipei.
• 世界 : Southeast Asia.

引證標本

ILAN: Tsuifenghu, Lu 25306. TAIPEI: Faurie 294. TAICHUNG: Wuling, Lu 19664. NANTOU: Tsuifeng, Lu 19449. CHIAYI: Mt. Alishan, Wilson 10942. KAOHSIUNG: Matuda 362. TAITUNG: Kao 419. HUALIEN: Chinshuishan, Chen & Hung s.n. in 1995.

參考文獻

• LI, Hui-Lin, LU, Sheng-You, YANG, Yuen-Po and TSENG, Yen-Hsueh, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 4: 20. 1998.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)