生活型

shrub

形態特徵

• Evergreen shrubs. Branchlets white to grayish stellate-tomentose.
• Leaves lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, 7–20 cm long, 1–4 cm wide, apex long acuminate to caudate, apex subentire, base narrowly cuneate to attenuate, margin minutely serrulate, entire near base of blade, with cup-shaped glands mostly at base, sparsely yellow glandular dotted adaxially, densely so abaxially, densely stellate hairy adaxially when young and glabrate, densely to extremely densely white to grayish stellate hairy abaxially, lateral veins 8–14 pairs; petioles ca. 1 cm long, extremely densely stellate hairy.
• Inflorescence 6–9-branched; peduncles ca. 1 cm long; bracts minute, linear. Flowers pedicellate or subsessile; pedicels usually less than 0.5 mm long; calyx ca. 1 mm long, tube densely stellate hairy and sparsely yellow glandular dotted outside; corolla lobes obtuse to rounded, white or rarely pinkish adaxially, sparsely yellow glandular dotted and hairy abaxially, tube ca. 2 mm long, glabrous; stamens ca. 6 mm long, filaments glabrous; ovary strigose to stellate hairy and yellow glandular dotted apically or rarely only glandular dotted.
• Fruit globose to ellipsoid, 2–3 mm across, glabrous, purple or sometimes white when ripe.

分布

• 台灣 : In the southern part of the island, between 600–1500 m in elevation.

引證標本

KAOHSIUNG: Nanfengshan, J. L. Wang 5403 (TAIF, Type); Sanpin to Nanfonshan, Kao 7465. PINGTUNG: Chachayalaishan, S. Z. Yang 30486. TAITUNG: Lichia logging trail, T. T. Chen 7698.

參考文獻

• YANG Yuen-Po , LU Sheng-You and CHEN Tien-Tsai, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 4: 410. 1998.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)