生活型

shrub

形態特徵

• A climbing shrub; branchlets pubescent or subpubescent.
• Leaves oblong, narrowly obovate or oblong-lanceolate, (2.4-)3.5–5.2(–5.8) cm long, (0.9-)l.4–2.2(–2.6) cm broad, apex acuminate or acute, base cuneate, glabrous on both surfaces; petioles short or sessile, 2–5 mm long.
• Inflorescence umbellately arranged in head clusters, 4–7 mm in diam., terminal; peduncle 4–15 mm long, pubescent. Flowers greenish-white, 1.5–2 mm long, polygamo-dioecious; bisexual flowers dimorphic with heterostyles; calyx truncate; corolla 5 mm long, glabrous outside, the throat hairy, 4–5-lobed; stamens included or exserted, filaments short or long, 2 or 5 mm long, anthers oblong; style 2-lobed, exserted or included, 5 or 3 mm long; male flowers without rudimentary style; ovary 4-celled, the ovules solitary.
• Fruits compound, succulent, 7 mm long, 6–13 mm in diam., oranged-red at maturity.

分布

• 台灣 : in broad-leaved forests below elevations 1,000 m in central and southern part of the island.
• 世界 : Southern China, Indo-China to the Philippines.

引證標本

TAICHUNG: Chingshan to Kukuan, Huang et al. 9607. TAINAN: Wushantou, Morita 297. KAOHSIUNG: Kuangyingshan, Kao 10562. P1NGTUNG: Ssuchunghsi, Chao 975; Hengchun, Maopitou, Yang 2994; Manchou, Kaoshihfo, Ho et al. 1402.

引用文獻

• 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., 台灣植物誌第二版)