生活型

climber

形態特徵

• Plants climbing. Stems terete, usually rooting along stem.
• Leaves opposite; blades elliptic, fleshy, veins obcure, 5–14 cm long, 2.5–5 cm broad, apex obtuse or acute, base rounded or obtuse, with 2 or more glands at base; petioles 1–2.5 cm long.
• Inflorescences many-flowered umbels; peduncles 1–10 cm long; pedicels 1.5–3.2 cm long in open flower; calyx 5-lobed, lobes lanceolate, hairy, 2.5 mm long; corolla 5-lobed, lobes ovate-triangular, 4–5 mm long, papillate inside; corona 5-lobed, stellately spreading, waxy, ridged, lobes acute at apex; pollinia oblong; stigma flat, obtuse at tip.
• Follicles 1 per pedicel, cylindric, acuminate at apex, 8–10 cm long. Seeds flat, lanceolate, 5 mm long, 1 mm broad, comose.

分布

• 台灣 : climbing on rocks and trees throughout the island at low elevations.
• 世界 : India, southern China, Japan, the Ryukyus.

引證標本

TAIPEI: Pihu, Kuo 6675; Wulai, Sasaki s. n. 1919. ILAN: Nanao to Nanchi, Suzuki 7614; Pengpengshan, Kao 5981. KAOHSIUNG: Kaohsiung, Henry 723. PINGTUNG: Kaoshihfo, Kudo & Suzuki 16073; Nanjenshan, Huang & Hsiao 8147; Shihwen, Matuda 827. HUALIEN: Liyutan, Huang & Huang 9949; Sanhsia, Wang 3247; Tienhsiang, Huang 4317. TAITUNG: Lanyu, Tienchih, Kao 8718; Lutao, Sasaki s. n. 1929.

引用文獻

• LU, Fu-Yuan, KAO, Muh-Tsuen, HUANG, Shing-Fan and WANG, Jenn-Che, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 4: 232. 1998.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit., 台灣植物誌第二版)