生活型

shrub

形態特徵

• A shrub, 1–2(–5) m tall.
• Leaves thin chartaceous, lanceolate, 5–12 cm long, 1–3.5 cm broad, acuminate, base cuneate, margins entire, crenate or serrulate, gray-white or fulvous-tomentose on lower surface, costa and veins indistinct above, raised below, veins 8–10 per side, arcuate-ascending, anastomosing near margins, reticulations indistinct, petiole to 5 mm long, stipules narrow.
• Inflorescences terminal and axillary slender drooping paniculate spikes, 8–14 cm long, densely fulvous or gray-tomentose; calyx campanulate, 3–4 mm long, lobes triangular-oblong; corolla tubular, straight, to 1 cm long, white, pubescent or glabrescent without, lobes short; stamens inserted above middle of tube.
• Capsules ellipsoid, 7–8 mm long.

分布

• 台灣 : on mountain slopes from 600 to 1,400 m, common.
• 世界 : India, Malaysia and China.

引證標本

TAIPEI: Neihu, Peng 6450; Tanshui, Faurie 405. TAOYUAN: Fuhsing, Wu 1956. HSINCHU: Hengshan, Peng 12267. MIAOLI: Tungshiishuishang, Chen & Wu s. n. 1997; Kao & Kuo 480. TAICHUNG: near Kukuan, Shen 374. NANTOU: Tzuchung, Peng 11417; Lushan, Peng 6177. CHIAYI: Fanlu, Wang 789; Alishan, Liu 679. KAOHSIUNG: Taoyuan, Liu 410; Maolin, Lu 1825. PINGTUNG: Wutai, Liu 397; Taiwu, Yang 6475. TAITUNG: Yenping, Tsou 403; Tungho, Chen 459. HUALIEN: Taroko Natl. Park, Peng 17025.

參考文獻

• LI, Hui-Lin and PENG, Ching-I, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 4: 145. 1998.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)