生活型

shrub

形態特徵

• Shrubs with latex, tomentose when young, glabrescent with age.
• Leaves verticillate, (3-)4 unequally-sized at each node, petioles 2-4 mm, leaf blades chartaceous to thin coriaceous, obovate-elliptic to elliptic, base acute or round, apex acute, the largest 9.5-11 cm long, 4-5 cm wide, the smallest 5-6 cm long, 3.5-4cm wide.
• Inflorescences in axillary compound dichasium; flowers small, 2 mm long; calyx lobes 5; corolla white, urceolate, throat pilose within, tube ca. 3-4 mm long, lobes 5, aestivation in bud sinistrorse (overlapping to the left), obliquely obovate to suborbicular, 1.5-2 mm long; ovary superior, 2-carpellary, connate, style filiform, stigma bilobed; stamesn 5, inserted, filaments short.
• Drupes subglobose, glabrous, 8-10 mm in diam., deep red or dark purple when ripe. Seeds 2, rugose.

物候

Flowering and fruiting March to July.

引證標本

Pingtung County: Hengchun Township, Lungtsaipu, elev. ca. 200 m, 15 Apr. 2010, Y.-N. Ko 1640 (HAST, PPI & TAIF).

引用文獻

• Yung-Nan Ko , Fu-Shan Chou and Chun-Kuei Lia, Taiwania 56(2): 169-172. 2011.