生活型

tree

形態特徵

• Evergreen trees; twigs gray-brown, terete, young twigs brown, with brown appressed hairs, soon glabrescent, slightly ridged below petioles; terminal buds obliquely ovoid, tomentose to glabrescent, cinnamon-colored to rusty, apex acuminate, usually curved, 3–8 mm long.
• Leaves coriaceous, narrowly elliptic to narrowly oblong, 7–15 cm long, 2–5 cm wide; apex caudate to acuminate, base cuneate to short attenuate, margins slightly recurved, crenate to serrate, with teeth, teeth 3–8 mm apart, glabrous on upper surface, pale green to slightly glaucous on lower surface, glabrous, sometimes sparsely appressed pubescent on midrib, midrib impressed on upper surface, prominent on lower surface; nerves 8–12(–13) pairs, prominent on lower surface, petiole glabrous or sparsely appressed hairy, abaxially sulcate, 7–15 mm long.
• Inflorescences an axillary spikes, often branched at base, (2.5–)3–5(–7) cm long, axis tomentose, cinnamon -colored, bracts ovate to transversely widely ovate, 1–1.5 mm long, apex obtuse to acute, bracteoles 2, ovate ca.about 1 mm long, both persistent, keeled, adaxially glabrous, abaxially with same indument as Inflorescence axis. Calyx tube glabrous, 0.5–0.8 mm long, limb 0.5–1 mm long, lobes imbricate, depressed ovate, 0.5–1 mm long, apex rounded to obtuse, sparsely appressed pubescent outside, margin ciliate; corolla white, 4–5 mm long, deeply 5-lobed, lobes elliptic to oblong, tube ca. 1 mm long; stamens (40–)50–60, indistinctly pentadelphous; disc annular, glabrous; style glabrous, ca. 4 mm long, ovary 3-locular, with 4 ovules 4 perin each locule.
• Fruits dark violet, globose to ampulliform, 5–6 mm long, 5–6(–7) mm in diam., crowned by persistent calyx lobes, stones ampulliform, slightly grooved, 4–5 mm long, 4–5 mm in diam.; mesocarp thin, endocarp woody, seed 1, twice curved, with similarly curved

分布

• 台灣 : up to 1,000 m.
• 世界 : Japan and S. China.

引證標本

TAIPEI: Agyoku, Tagawa 207; inter Urai et Tanpiya, Tagawa 304; Urai, Soma s. n.; Kusshaku, Nagasawa 665; prope Hokuto, Tagawa 667; near Toulinli zoo, Kuo 12092; Sozan, Honda & Ito s. n.; Mt. Tatung, Kuo 6299; Shinko, Nagasawa 233, Kawakami & Mori 1330; Hsichih, Tang 258; Muchi, Chiang 224; Aoti, Chen 2645; Yangming, Huang 9721; Shihting Hsiang, Liu 716; Peichatienshan, Yang 643; Chihsingshan, Shie 1104. HSINCHU: Goshizan, Kawakami 1438; Chiliau, Wang 466; Hsinchu tall gate, Tang 258. NANTOU: Tehuashe to Shuishetashan, Chiang 122; Puli, Leu 413; Hsiaping Arboretum, Wang et al. 1342; Lienhuachih, Leu 300. PINGTUNG: Kenting Park, Chuang 3972. ILAN: Bonbon, Kao 5996; Fushan, Boufford & Bartholomew 25215.

參考文獻

• NAGAMASU, Hidetoshi, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 4: 125. 1998.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)