生活型

shrub

形態特徵

• Epiphytic shrubs, young shoots glabrous.
• Leaves thick coriaceous, ovate-oblong, 3–5 cm long, 1.5–2 cm broad, apex rounded or emarginate, base cuneate, margin entire, recurved, often glaucous on upper surface, brownish on lower surface, midrib raised on upper surface, prominent on lower surface, lateral veins ca. 4 pairs, inconspicuous; petiole 2–3 mm long.
• Flowers 2–5 in axillary racemes or fascicles; pedicel 5–10 mm long, glabrous; calyx lobes lanceolate; corolla ca. 6 mm long, shallowly 5-lobed, glabrous; stamens 10, anthers spurred, filaments villous.
• Fruit a globose berry, ca. 5 mm across.

分布

• 台灣 : Common on trees in broad-leaved forests, 2,000–3,500 m.

引證標本

ILAN: Yuanyanghu, Lu s. n. in 1986, Liu 914; Fanpaoshan, Liao 1784. NANTOU: Kawakami & Mori 1143, 1146 & 1147 (Type of V. emarginatum Hay. TAIF). KAOHSIUNG: Taoyuan Hsiang, Liu 466.

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.)