生活型

shrub

形態特徵

• Climbing shrubs; branchlets terete, glabrous.
• Leaves trifoliolate, glabrous; petioles 2–3.8 cm long; leaflets coriaceous, ovate-orbicular or elliptic or lanceolate ovate, 5.5–9(–13.5) cm long, 1.8–4.8(–5.8) cm wide, acuminate or acute at apex, rounded or cuneate at base, entire, pinnately nerved, lateral veins indistinct; petiolules 1.3–4 cm long.
• Inflorescence thyrsoid, terminal or axillary, slightly pubescent. Flowers white; calyx 4–5-lobed, tube 2–2.5 mm long, slightly pubescent, lobes minute, triangular; corolla 5-lobed, tube 2–2.5 cm long, lobes oblong or ovate-oblong, ca. 1 cm long, acute at apex.
• Fruit globose, ca. 9 mm across.

分布

• 台灣 : in thickets at low elevations.
• 世界 : India, Myanmar, Indochina, and mainland China.

引證標本

TAIPEI: Wuchihshan, Lu 16937. ILAN: Chihlan, Lu 17678; Nioutou, Lu 19176. TAOYUAN: Rounghua, Lee s. n. 1979; Gaogan, Shimada s. n. 1918. HSINCHU: Chienshan, Yang s. n. 1988. NANTOU: Lushan, Kuo 9896. KAOHSIUNG: Wuweishan, Matuda s. n. 1918; Kaohsiung, Matsuda s. n. 1919. PINGTUNG: Wuweishan, Sasaki s. n. 1918. HUALIEN: Chingshueishan, Lu 18102.

參考文獻

• YANG, Yuen-Po and LU, Sheng-You, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 4: 134. 1998.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)