生活型

shrub

形態特徵

• Small shrubs, branchlets glabrous.
• Leaves thick chartaceous, short petiolate, ovate, 5–8 cm long, 1.5–2.5 cm broad, apex acuminate, base obtuse to rounded or subcordate, serrate, glabrous, upper surface green, lower surface slightly paler, midrib and veins prominent and raised on both surfaces, lateral veins ca. 3 pairs; petiole 3–5 mm long, thick, glabrous.
• Racemes axillary, glabrous, to 5 cm long; pedicel 4–5 mm long; bracts 2, minute, acuminate; calyx lobes triangular, margin ciliate; corolla campanulate, ca. 7 mm long, 5-lobed; stamens 10, anther cells awned.
• Fruit a globose berry, ca. 7 mm thick, dark purple.

分布

• 台灣 : on high mountains from 2,500 to 3,300 m in central ranges; also in vicinity of Taipei from about 450 to 1,500 m around hot sulfur springs.
• 世界 : Southern China and Philippines.

引證標本

ILAN: Taipinshan, Liou 510. TAIPEI: Wilson 11239. TAOYUAN: Lalashan, Lu 22241. MIAOLI: Taian, Wang 1771. TAICHUNG: Tahsuehshan, Lu 25546. NANTOU: Meifeng, Lin 280. CHIAYI: Mt. Alishan, Wilson 9689; Yushan, Kawakami & Mori 1954. KAOHSIUNG: Chuyunshan, Wang 10424. PINGTUNG: Peitawushan, Wang 9137. HUALIEN: Juisui Forest Road, Wang 563.

參考文獻

• LI, Hui-Lin, LU, Sheng-You, YANG, Yuen-Po and TSENG, Yen-Hsueh, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 4: 18. 1998.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)