生活型

shrub

形態特徵

• Decumbent, suffrutescent subshrubs; stems ascending, to 30 cm tall, minutely puberulous when young, glabrescent.
• Leaves opposite or subverticillate, chartaceous, elliptic-ovate, elliptic or broadly elliptic, 1.3–8 cm long, 0.8–3.5 cm wide, base and apex acute, margins finely serrate, glabrous and somewhat lustrous above, slightly glandular along midrib below, lateral veins 5–8 pairs, reticulate veins distinct; petioles 2–10 mm long, puberulous.
• Inflorescences subumbellate, puberulous, axillary; peduncles 0.3–1.5 cm long, short glandular-puberulous. Flowers white or pinkish; calyx lobes broadly ovate or ovate; corolla lobes ovate, minutely papillate or glabrous inside, glabrous outside, punctate.
• Fruit globose, red, somewhat punctate.

分布

• 台灣 : in forests below 1,800 m in the north.
• 世界 : China, the Ryukyus, and Japan.

引證標本

ILAN: Tayuanshan, Kao 3216; Taipingshan, Kao 10669. TAIPEI: Lepeishan, Hsu 0222.

參考文獻

• YANG, Yuen-Po and LU, Sheng-You, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 4: 44. 1998.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit., 台灣植物誌第二版)