生活型

shrub

形態特徵

• Suffrutescent subshrubs to 20 cm tall; stems erect, short puberulous when young.
• Leaves oblanceolate, elliptic, or oblong-obovate, 10–17 cm long, 2.5–3.8 cm wide, apex acute or acuminate, base cuneate or attenuate, margins crenate, green and glabrous above, gray-green and glabrescent beneath; petioles 3–5 mm long, slightly short puberulous when young.
• Inflorescences umbellate, axillary and/or terminal; peduncle 6–7 mm long, puberulous Flowering branches to 10 cm long, with 1 or 2 smaller Leaves at apex. Flowers pinkish or white; calyx lobes linear-triangular; corolla lobes ovate; pedicels ca. 1 cm long, puberulous.
• Fruit globose, red.
• This endemic species is restricted to the Hengchun Peninsula. It has long been regarded as conspecific with Ardisia crenata Sims. However, the pubescence of the young branches, the lower surface of the Leaves and the Inflorescence of this species are diag

分布

• 台灣 : in forests below 800 m of the south.

參考文獻

• YANG, Yuen-Po and LU, Sheng-You, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 4: 44. 1998.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)