生活型

herb

形態特徵

• Perennial scandent or climbing herbs, branches 4-angled, scabrid throughout.
• Leaves coriaceous to subcoriaceous, 4-verticillate, lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, (3.0-)5.0–9.0(–11.8) cm long, (0.6-)0.9–1.7(–2.0) cm broad, apex acute, base cordate or truncate, 3-nerved; petioles (0.5-)1.0–11.2 cm long.
• Inflorescence in axillary and terminal panicle-cymes. Flowers white, corolla bell-form, 5-lobed, lobes ovate-lanceolate with caudate apex; stamens 5, exserted on the mouth of corolla, anthers oblong; styles 2.
• Fruits didymous, globose, 5–7 mm in diam., black at maturity. Seeds 2.

分布

• 台灣 : Open places or along the forest margin above elevations 1,500 m throughout this island.

引證標本

ILAN: Mt. Nanhutashan to Chiliting, Hsu 6048. TAICHUNG: Lishan, Yang 1196; Wuling Farm, Wang 1153. NANTOU: Meifeng, Yang et al. 8364; Kuankao to Tungpu, Huang 8602. CHIAYI: Mt. Alishan, Chen 5424; Mt. Yushan, Sasaki s.n. Oct 1909. KAOHSIUNG: Tienchi to Yiakou, Huang et al. 8879. TAITUNG: Chueifeng to Chienching, Hosokawa 5216; Litao to Bridge Tienlungchiao, Huang et al. 3669–2. HUALIEN: Pilu, Chiu 1145.

參考文獻

• LIU, Ho-Yih, YANG, T. Y. Aleck, LI, Sung-Po and LI, Hen-Jung, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 4: 322. 1998.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)