生活型

shrub

形態特徵

• Evergreen shrubs (?), 3-5 m tall, many branches, slightly horizontal, 2-4 layers. Young branchlets with shining brown-pilose or strigose hairs, and glabrous with age; winter buds brown-villous.
• Leaves crowded at ends of branches, opposite or 3 verticillate, coriaceous; blades elliptic-ovate, 2-4.5 cm long, 1-2 cm wide, the apex acute to acuminate and terminating into a gland or an awn, cuneate at the base, the margins entire, young leaf ciliate; mid-vein concave on the surface and promote at the lower surface, upper surface glabrous, lower surface with reticulate nervulets, glabrous except sparsely hirsute on midrib; young leaves clothed with brown pilose or strigose, glaucenscent; petiole 3-5 mm long, pilose, grooved on upper surface.
• Flower-bud terminal, single, scales orbicular, ovate, ciliate and densely brown pilose on the middle of outside; flower terminal, solitary, bloom and sprout at the same time; pedicels densely brown pilose, 10-12 mm long at fruiting; calyx pilose; corolla pale rose-purple, widely funnel-shaped, 2-2.5 cm long and 3-3.5 cm in diam., corolla lobe oblanceolate to obovate, with a line-like spot at the upper three corolla-lobe; stamens 10, filaments flattened, glabrous, irregular, shorter than corolla; anthers oblong, porus dehiscence, introrse; ovary ovate, densely clothed with pilose; style 2-2.5 cm long, equal or slightly longer than corolla, glabrous; stigma capitates, slightly lobed.
• Capsules narrowly ovoid, ovate, 8-10 mm long, 5-6 mm wide, clothed with appressed brown hairs. Seed elliptic to spindled, ca. 1.5 mm long, 0.5 mm wide, acute to acuminate on both sides.

物候

Flowering period from March to April; Fruiting period from April to October.

分布

• 台灣 : only in southern Central Mountain.
• 世界 : Southwest China (Jiangxi, Fujian, Hunan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hongkong).

引證標本

Pingtung County: Taiwu Township, Peitawushan, elev. 2,400-2,500 m, 21 March, 2005, C. H. Liao 45 (flower, PPI); Chunri Township, Guzilunshan, elev. 1,600 m, 23 May 1990, S. Z. Yang & C. G. Lin 22267 (leaf, PPI); the same location, 23 October, 1994, S. K. Chuang 283 (fruit, PPI); Rimushan, 17 March, 1991. S. Z. Yang 24547 (flower, PPI); South part of Dahanshan, elev. 1,500 m, 16 March, 2005, C. F. Chen 1303 (flower, PPI); the same location, 1 May 2005, C. F. Chen 1351 (fruit, PPI); Tashulinshan (Dahanshan), 20 Jul. 1920, S. Sasaki (TAI 86088). Taitung County: Tajen Township, Tajen Experimental Forest Station, elev. 750 m, Y. J. Lin 637 (leaf, PPI).

參考文獻

• Sheng-You Lu, Chien-Fan Chen, Yu-Jen Lin and Sheng-Zehn Yang, Taiwania 55(2): 180-185. 2010.