生活型

shrub

形態特徵

• Shrubs, 1–2 m tall; branches and branchlets glabrous, slender.
• Leaves subcoriaceous or chartaceous, oblong, narrowly oblong, ovate, lanceolate, narrowly elliptic, 6–11 cm long, 2–4 cm broad; base obtuse, apex long cuspidate-acuminate; upper surface glabrous, lower surface appressed short pubescent on nerves; secondary veins 4–6-pairs, veinlets parallel or subparallel; stipules narrowly deltate, ca. 2 mm long, pubescent, caducous in age; petioles 4–6 mm long, sparsely appressed short pubescent. Peduncle ca. 4 mm long.
• Flowers subsessile, ebracteate, clustered in axillary head. Calyx campanulate, ca. 2mm long, sparsely pubescent outside, lobes 5, ca. 1 mm long. Corolla salverform, ca. 10 mm long, white, upper 1/2 of tube pubescent inside, glabrate outside, lobes 5. Stamens 5, filaments ca. 1 mm long, anthers oblong, ca. 1.2 mm long. Style filiform, ca. 7 mm long, stigma 5-branched, white or purple.
• Drupe globose, 4–6 mm in diam., sparsely pubescent, bluish purple, persistent calyx lobes sparsely pubescent. Seeds 5 or 6.

分布

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

引證標本

TAIPEI: Manyuehyuan, Peng 8623; T'unghoushan,; Wulai, Chao 963. ILAN: Fushan, Li 236; Nanao, Liu 171. NANTOU: Lienhuachih, Lu 17131; Yuchih, Lin 249. PINGTUNG: Shouka, Chen 885. TAITUNG: Kueitien, Lu 17389; Tahanshan, Lu 19027. HUALIEN: Fuli, Chen 361; Hsinkangshan, Lu 19371.

引用文獻

• LIU, Ho-Yih, YANG, T. Y. Aleck, LI, Sung-Po and LI, Hen-Jung, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 4: 290. 1998.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit., 台灣植物誌第二版)