生活型

tree-shrub

形態特徵

• Evergreen shrubs or small trees; twigs dark brown, terete, young twigs green, slender, slightly ridged below petioles, glabrous; terminal buds small, ovoid to subulate, apex acute, glabrous except ciliate margin of scales ciliate.
• Leaves chartaceous, elliptic to ovate, 3–6 cm long, 1–3 cm wide, apex long caudate, with apiculate tip, base rounded to acute, margin glandular-serrate, with teeth 1–3 mm apart, glabrous, midrib slightly impressed on upper surface, prominent on lower surface, nerves 4–6 pairs, meeting in an intramarginal vein, slightly prominent on lower surface, petiole glabrous, 2–5 mm long.
• Inflorescences axillary, a lax racemes, 2 to 8-flowered, to 3 cm long, axis and pedicels glabrous or slightly pilose at bracteal nodes, slender, bracts usually caducous, ovate to triangular, keeled, acute at apex, 1–1.5 mm long, glabrous except ciliate margin ciliate, bracteoles 2, persistent or caducous, ovate, keeled, glandular apiculate at apex, glabrous except on ciliate margin, 0.7–1 mm long; pedicels to 15 mm long. Calyx tube ca. 1.5 mm long, glabrous; limb 1.2–1.7 mm long, lobes valvate, semisemicircular to triangular, glandular apiculate, ciliolate, 0.5–0.7 mm long; corolla often tinged violet, 5–6 mm long, deeply 5-lobed, lobes elliptic, ciliolate or totally glabrous; stamens 20–40; disc annular or shortly cylindrical, glabrous; style glabrous, 5–7 mm long, ovary 3-locular.
• Fruits narrowly ovoid, often slightly curved, crowned by persistent calyx lobes, 10–13 mm long, 4–5 mm in diam.

分布

• 台灣 : 200–2,300 m altitude.

引證標本

TAICHUNG: Mt. Anmashan, 2300 m, Liu et al. 89; Chitou to Fenghuanshan, Sasaki T682; Hoping Hsiang, Sanchiaoshan, 1250–1780 m, Shen 259. NANTOU: Alishan to Hoshe, 1600 m, Tamura et al. 22231; Fonghuang shan, Liew et al. 283; Chiti to Yang-shan, Kao 7240. CHIAYI: Alishan, 2270–2000 m, Hsu & Chuma 8888; Arisan, Sasaki s. n.; Fengchihu, Wang 859, 1500 m, Liu 198. TAINAN: Tatungshan, near Kuantzuling, 400–1234 m, Huang & Huang 16008. PINGTUNG: Man-Chou Hsiang, Laofoshan, 400–500 m, Liu 294; Nanjenshan, 300 m, Hsieh s. n., Yang 1781; Kaoshihfoshan, 200–500 m, Ohashi et al. 13502, 13505; Souka, Chuang et Kao 3480. ILAN: Mt. Taiping-shan, Sasaki s. n. HUALIEN: Chi-mei, 400 m, Li 3038; Tunmen, Huang 10240; Taroko, Sasaki s. n.; Hsiulin Hsiang, Keko to Liwushan, Taroko, 600–950 m, Chen 285; Chinshui-shan, 800 m, Nakamura 3670; Antung Hot Spring, Yuli Hsiang, Liao 1611. TAITUNG: Mt. Tawushan, Matuda H97, T42; Tarurukusha, Sasaki s. n.; Sinkogun, Suibotei, Xrinpan, 280 m, Suzuki ST19514; Changpin, 150 m, Liu et al. 279; Chinshuiying, 500 m Kudo & Mori s. n.; Kwetien, Yang 1160; Iwan, Kao 6121.

參考文獻

• NAGAMASU, Hidetoshi, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 4: 117. 1998.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)