生活型

tree

形態特徵

• A small tree; branchlets glabrous.
• Leaves broadly elliptic, elliptic or oblong, (7.5-)l4.1–20.9(–22.5) cm long, (4.8-)6.3–11.2(–14.2) cm broad, apex acute or acuminate, base cuneate, glabrous on both surfaces; petioles 0.5–1.7 cm long.
• Inflorescence in axillary globose head; peduncles l.0–2.5 cm long. Flowers white, 0.5–1.5 cm long, bisexual, solitary, sessile; calyx truncate; corolla funnelform, glabrous outside, the throat hairy, 4–5-lobed; stamens on the mouth of the corolla, filaments 3 mm long, anthers linear-oblong; style l2 mm long, stigma 2-lobed.
• Fruits as large as a hen's egg, 3.0–7.5 cm long, 2.8–5.6 cm in diam., white at maturity.

分布

• 台灣 : along the seashore of the Hengchun Peninsula and adjacent islands.
• 世界 : Tropical Asia, Australia and Polynesia.

引證標本

PINGTUNG: Hsiaoliukiu Island, Hosokawa 1974; Kenting, Huang & Kao 613; Manchou, Hwang s.n. Mar 1991. TAITUNG: Lanyu Island, Hongtou, Wang 3499, Tungching, Yang et al. 10000.

參考文獻

• LIU, Ho-Yih, YANG, T. Y. Aleck, LI, Sung-Po and LI, Hen-Jung, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 4: 299. 1998.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)