生活型

vine

形態特徵

• Large woody vines; young stems pubescent.
• Leaves widely ovate to orbicular, 6–15 cm long, 5–14 cm wide, base cordate, apex short acuminate, obtuse-mucronulate, pubescent or glabrescent adaxially lower surface with minute black dots; petiole 3–14 cm long.
• Flowers axillary, usually solitary; pedicel 1–3.5 cm long, pubescent; sepals orbicular, apex shallowly emarginate or rounded, subequal, 12–18 mm long, pubescent or glabrous, enlarged in fruit; corolla 8–10 cm long, widely funnelform, midpetaline band pilose or minutely glandulose, rose-purple; filaments hairy at base.
• Capsules globose, 2–3.5 cm across, seeds 8–9 mm long, black or dark brown, pubescent.

分布

• 台灣 : at low elevations, common in the Hengchun Peninsula.
• 世界 : Circumtropical, often near seacoasts.

引證標本

CHIAYI: Chuchi, Leu 1609. KAOHSIUNG: Liukwei, Wu 64. PINGTUNG: Pauli, S. Z. Yang 27688, 24079. TAITUNG: Botel Tobago, C. E. Chang 9918.

參考文獻

• STAPLES, George William and YANG, Sheng-Zehn, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 4: 382. 1998.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)