生活型

tree

形態特徵

• A medium-sized tree; trunk straight.
• Leaves broadly obovate, apex acute, base cordate, 10–20 cm broad, pubescent beneath, veins 8–10-paired; petioles 2–5 cm long; stipules ovate, 10 mm long. Cymes pubescent, axillary, secund, with a long peduncle; 3–12 cm in length.
• Flowers subsessile, bisexual; corolla white, slender, 3–4 cm long, lobes 6–8, throat with thin pubescence; stamens 6-–8, inserted, filament short; calyx truncate; ovary 4–6-celled. Flowers in 2 forms; those with male tendency have short included styles; those with female tendency have long exserted style, 2–2.5 cm in diam.
• Fruit white at maturity; seeds 4–6.

分布

• 台灣 : a strand tree along seashore, at the southern end of the Hengchun Peninsula, Lutao, Lanyu and Hsiao Liukiu Islands.
• 世界 : Tropical Asia and Australia to Polynesia.

引證標本

PINGTUNG: Liuchinyu, Hosokawa 1978; Oluanpi, Sasaki s. n. 1931, Morimoto 750; Hibino & Suzuki 12480; Kudo & Suzuki 15842; Suzuki 5956; Chao 1026, 1040. HUALIEN: Hsiulin, Chungte Tunnel, Yang et al. s. n. TAITUNG: Lanyu, Keng et al. 260,261.

參考文獻

• LIU, Ho-Yih, YANG, T. Y. Aleck, LI, Sung-Po and LI, Hen-Jung, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 4: 263. 1998.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)