生活型

shrub

形態特徵

• Evergreen shrubs; branchlets with spinule-like protuberances red-brown when young, subdensely stellate and dendritic hairy, glabrate.
• Leaves elliptic, oblong-obovate or ovate-lanceolate, 9–23 cm long, 3–9 cm wide, apex mostly acuminate to long acuminate, base cuneate to rounded, margin serrulate to denticulate, with cup-shaped glands mostly at base, sparsely yellow glandular dotted or not adaxially and densely so abaxially, sparsely to loosely stellate and setulose hairy along veins adaxially, sparsely to subdensely stellate hairy along prominent veins abaxially, distinctly glabrate when mature, lateral veins 7–12 pairs; petioles ca. 1 cm long, subdensely stellate hairy.
• Inflorescence densely red-brown stellate hairy, 6–8-branched; peduncle ca. 2 cm long; bracts linear to lanceolate. Flowers pedicellate; calyx teeth shallowly triangular, tube sparsely to loosely yellow glandular dotted and stellate hairy outside; corolla lobes obtuse to rounded, purple to pink adaxially, sparsely yellow glandular dotted and pinkish or whitish abaxially, tube ca. 2 mm long, glabrous; stamens 5–8 mm long, filaments glabrous; ovary yellow glandular dotted at apex.
• Fruit globose, ca. 4 mm across, yellow glandular dotted at apex, purple when ripe.

分布

• 台灣 : Thickets and roadsides at low elevations (up to ca. 1000 m) in the southern part of Taiwan.

引證標本

KAOHSIUNG: Meishan, T. T. Chen 9213; Shanping, T. T. Chen 8016; Taoyuan, T. T. Chen 9214. PINGTUNG: Haocha, T. T. Chen 7322; Tahanshan logging trail, T. T. Chen 7599 (Holotype! in NSYSU, Isotype in TAI, TAIF, HAST).

參考文獻

• YANG Yuen-Po , LU Sheng-You and CHEN Tien-Tsai, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 4: 408. 1998.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)