生活型

tree-shrub

形態特徵

• Shrubs or small trees, young branchlets pubescent.
• Leaves thick coriaceous, elliptic, 5–8 cm long, 2.5–3.5 cm broad, apex acute to acuminate, base acute to attenuate, entire, glabrous, lateral veins ca. 3 pairs, strongly ascending, inconspicuous; petiole stout, ca. 3 mm long, puberulous.
• Racemes axillary, ca. 7 cm long, glabrous; pedicel ca. 5 mm long, articulate; calyx lobes lanceolate, glabrous; corolla campanulate, ca. 5 mm long, shallowly 5-lobed; stamens ca. 11, anthers spurred, filaments villous at base; ovary glabrous, 5-celled, style exserted; ovules 2 in each cell.
• Fruit a globose berry, scarlet, glaucous, ca. 8 mm across, many seeded.

分布

• 台灣 : The variety endemic to Taiwan in broad-leaved forests on high mountains, sometimes epiphytic.
• 世界 : The typical variety in northwestern India and western China.

引證標本

ILAN: Tsuifenghu, Lu 25303, Taipingshan, Wu 317. TAICHUNG: Chiayang, Clarke 125. CHIAYI: Arishan, Hayata & Sasaki s. n. in 1912 (Type of V. caudatifolium Hay., TAIF). PINGTUNG: Peitawushan, Liu 14.

參考文獻

• LI, Hui-Lin, LU, Sheng-You, YANG, Yuen-Po and TSENG, Yen-Hsueh, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 4: 35. 1998.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)