生活型

shrub

形態特徵

• Shrubs, 1–2 m tall; branches and branchlets densely hirsute.
• Leaves subcoriaceous to chartaceous, lanceolate-oblong, elliptic to ovate, 5–10 cm long, 1.8–4 cm broad; base cuneate or obtuse, apex long-cuspidate, upper surface glabrous, lower surface densely hirsute; secondary veins 4–6 pairs, veinlets subparallel or forked; stipules narrowly deltate, ca. 1 mm long, hirsute, caducous in age; petioles 4–10 mm long, densely hirsute.
• Flowers sessile, ebracteate, clustered in axillary heads. Calyx campanulate, ca. 5.5 mm long, pubescent outside, lobes 4 or 5, triangular-lanceolate, ca. 4 mm long. Corolla salverform or funnelform, ca. 9 mm long, white, upper 2/3 of tube pubescent inside, pubescent outside, lobes 4 or 5. Stamens 5, sessile, anthers oblong, ca. 1 mm long. Style filiform, ca. 5 mm long, stigma 5-branched, white or purple.
• Drupe ovoid-globose, 4–7.5 mm in diam., blue, densely hirsute. Seeds 5.

分布

• 台灣 : in broad-leaved forests at low elevations throughout the island.
• 世界 : S. China, Indochina, the Ryukyus, and Malay peninsula.

引證標本

ILAN: Chilan, Lu 17675; Fushan, Li 293. TAIPEI: Huoyenshan, Li 419; Neitung, Li 435. NANTOU: Jihyutan, Hsu 12419; Kuantaohsi, Hsieh et al. 1473. PINGTUNG: Chufengshan, Wang 1249; Nanjenshan, Li 142. TAITUNG: Hsinhua, Lu 17868; Tawu, Chuang et al. 2030.

引用文獻

• LIU, Ho-Yih, YANG, T. Y. Aleck, LI, Sung-Po and LI, Hen-Jung, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 4: 280. 1998.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit., 台灣植物誌第二版)