生活型

shrub

形態特徵

• Shrubs, 1 m tall; stems hirsute when young.
• Leaves thick chartaceous, oblong to oblanceolate, 12–23 cm long, 4–6 cm broad; base acute, apex acuminate; densely hirsute on both surfaces; secondary veins 7 or 8-(–9) paired, veinlets subparallel, forked or reticulate; stipules triangular, 6 mm wide at base, 8 mm long, caducous in age; petioles 8–15 mm long, densely hirsute.
• Flowers sessile, 2–4 flowers in axillary head, surrounded by long-persistent bracts; bracts leaf-like, triangular-lanceolate, 1.5–3 cm long, densely hirsute. Calyx campanulate, ca. 2 mm long, pubescent, lobes 5, ca. 1 mm long. Corolla funnelform, 8–10 mm long, white, upper 2/3 of tube pubescent inside, pubescent outside, lobes 5. Stamens 5, sessile, anthers oblong, 1.7 mm long. Style filiform, ca. 7.3 mm long, stigma 5-branched, white.
• Drupes ovoid-globose, ca. 6 mm in diam., bluish purple, crowned by the rather long hair. Seeds 5.

分布

• 台灣 : in broad-leaved forests at low elevations in the northern and southern parts.
• 世界 : India to southern China and the Ryukyus.

引證標本

TAIPEI: Chilung, Peng 12902. PINGTUNG: Manchou, Peng 12577; Nanjenshan, Li 446. TAITUNG: Hungtoushan, Li 381; Kueitien, Lu 17908.

參考文獻

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