生活型

tree

形態特徵

• Small evergreen trees, 1–4 m tall; branches erect or spreading, pubescent when young, later glabrous, axillary spines straight paired at each node.
• Leaves thin coriaceous, oblong to oblong-obovate, 3–10 cm long, 1–4 cm wide, apex acute, base cuneate to obtuse, margin entire, glabrous except pubescent along veins on lower surface; petioles 3–5 mm long; stipules deltate-lanceolate, spine-like at apex, 2–4 mm long, glabrous.
• Inflorescences corymbiform cymes, at apex of brachyblasts, peduncle very short, pedicel 1–2 mm long; bracts and bracteoles deltate-ovate, 2–3 mm long; calyx ca. 5 mm long, densely pubescent, 4 or 5-lobed; corolla salverform, white, 15–20 mm long, tube pilose inside, lobes 4 or 5, linear-lanceolate, reflexed, glabrous; stamens exserted; style 12–18 mm long, upper half above tube strongly thickened.
• Berry subglobose, 7–10 mm in diam., pubescent when young, later glabrous.

分布

• 台灣 : in lowland thickets in the central and southern parts of the island..
• 世界 : Southern China and the Ryukyus.

引證標本

TAICHUNG: Teatsuanshan, Suzuki 21422. CHIAYI: Alishan, Sasaki s. n. 1932. TAINAN: Tsengwen Dam, Huang & Yang 4431. KAOHSIUNG: Lioukuei, Kiang et al. 110. PINGTUNG: Fengchiang, Huang 249.

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: 319. (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)