生活型

shrub

形態特徵

• Evergreen shrubs, often prostrate, 0.2–3 m tall, sometimes epiphytic; young branchlets pubescent.
• Leaves thin coriaceous, obovate, 8–10 mm long, 5–6 mm broad, apex rounded, emarginate, base acute, margin entire, recurved, midrib impressed on upper surface, obscure on lower surface, glabrous on both surfaces, green on upper surface, paler on lower surface; petiole 1–2 mm long, thick, pubescent to glabrescent.
• Racemes terminal, pubescent to glabrescent, 5 or 6 flowered; calyx 5-lobed, lobes broadly triangular.
• Fruit a globose berry, purplish, 5–6 mm thick.

分布

• 台灣 : Prostrate on rocks or epiphytic in high mountains, 2,000–3,730 m.

引證標本

TAOYUAN: Shilinchih, Lu 25503. MIAOLI: Tapachienshan, Liou 134. TAICHUNG: Tahsuehshan logging trail, Lu 25533. NANTOU: Yuanfeng, Lu 25292 & 15951. CHIAYI: Mt. Morrison, Kawakami & Mori 2286 (Type of V. merrillianum Hay., TAIF). KAOHSIUNG: Kuanshan, Liou 395. HUALIEN: Tatung, Lu 23703. PINGTUNG : Tahanshan, Lu 25522.

參考文獻

• LI, Hui-Lin, LU, Sheng-You, YANG, Yuen-Po and TSENG, Yen-Hsueh, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 4: 38. 1998.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)