生活型

shrub

形態特徵

• Shrubs, ca. 1 m tall; branches and branchlets densely pubescent.
• Leaves thickly membranaceous to chartaceous, elliptic or obovate, 6–11 cm long, 3–5 cm broad; base obtuse mostly, rarely acute; apex cuspidate-acuminate or acuminate; upper surface glabrous; lower surface densely pubescent; secondary veins 4 or 5-(–6) paired, veinlets subparallel or indistinct; stipules narrowly deltate, ca. 1 mm long or indistinct, pubescent, caducous in age; petiole ca. 5 mm long, pubescent.
• Flowers sessile, ebracteate, usually 4 or 5 flowers in axillary head. Calyx campanulate, ca. 2 mm long, densely pubescent outside; lobes 5, ca. 0.4–1 mm long. Corolla salverform or funnelform, ca. 8 mm long, white to pale violet; upper 2/3 of tubes pubescent inside, pubescent outside, lobes 5; Stamens 5, sessile, anthers oblong, ca. 1.2 mm long. Style filiform, 4 mm long; stigma 5-branched, white or pale violet.
• Drupes globose, ca. 5 mm in diam., blue, with persistent calyx lobes densely pubescent. Seeds 5.

分布

• 台灣 : in broad-leaved forests at low elevations throughout the island.
• 世界 : The Philippines.

引證標本

ILAN: Chilan, Lu 17676; Fushan, Li 186. TAIPEI: Tatungshan, Li 420; Wulai, Chao 960. NANTOU: Lienhuachih, Chao 877. PINGTUNG: Nanjenshan, Li 456. TAITUNG: Hsinhua, Lu 17866; Shouka, Li 143. HUALIEN: Chingshuishan, Lu 18014.

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.)