生活型

shrub

形態特徵

• Shrubs, 1–1.5 m tall; branches and branchlets densely appressed hirsute.
• Leaves chartaceous to subcoriaceous, oblong, 7.5–13 cm long, 2.5–4.5 cm broad; base obtuse to rounded, rarely cuneate; apex acuminate-cuspidate; upper surface glabrous, lower surface appressed hirsute on midrib and veins only; secondary veins 6 or 7-(8)-pairs, veinlets parallel or subparallel; stipules narrowly deltate, ca. 1 mm long, densely pubescent, caducous in age; petiole 5–8 mm long, densely appressed hirsute.
• Flowers sessile, ebracteate, (1)- 2–4-flowers in axillary heads. Calyx campanulate, ca. 2 mm long, hirsute outside; lobes 5, ca. 1 mm long. Corolla salverform, ca. 8 mm long, light pink-purple; tube pubescent except near base inside, pubescent outside; lobes 5. Stamens 5, filaments ca. 0.5 mm long, anthers oblong, ca. 1 mm long. Style filiform, ca. 6.5 mm long; stigma 5 branched, pink-purple.
• Drupes globose, ca. 5 mm in diam., bluish-purple. Seeds 5.

分布

• 台灣 : in broad-leaved forests in the northern, northeastern and southeastern parts of the island.

引證標本

TAIPEI: Manyuehyuan, Lu 17794; Tatungshan, Li 422. ILAN: Fushan, Li 184. TAITUNG: Tahanshan, Lu 19013.

參考文獻

• LIU, Ho-Yih, YANG, T. Y. Aleck, LI, Sung-Po and LI, Hen-Jung, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 4: 277. 1998.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)