生活型

shrub

形態特徵

• Evergreen shrubs.
• Leaves narrowly elliptic to elliptic, or obovate to oblanceolate, 15–35 cm long, 6–10 cm wide, apex acuminate to caudate, base cuneate to attenuate, margin denticulate, base with few cup-shaped glandular, both surfaces densely yellow glandular dotted, densely dendritic hairy when young, distinctly glabrate except midrib when mature adaxially, densely dendritic hairy abaxially; petioles mostly 3–4 cm long, extremely densely long dendritic hairy.
• Inflorescence ca. 7-branched; peduncle 1–3 cm long; bracts linear or sometimes leaf-like on rachis of first branches. Flowers sessile, compact; calyx tubular, ca. 4 mm long, lobes narrowly triangular to linear, subglabrous adaxially, extremely densely dendritic hairy, loosely yellow glandular dotted abaxially and on tube outside; corolla lobes obtuse to rounded, purple adaxially, whitish and densely appressed hairy abaxially, tube ca. 3 mm long, glabrous except throat outside; stamens usually 7–10 mm long, filaments glabrous; ovary densely yellow glandular dotted, apex loosely to densely long hairy at top.
• Fruit globose, up to 3 mm across, loosely yellow glandular dotted, sparsely hairy on upper part, white when ripe.

分布

• 台灣 : scattered from the central to northern part, usually in thickets and edges of forests at low elevations.
• 世界 : Southeastern China, Vietnam and Japan.

引證標本

ILAN: Fushan Botanical Garden, J. J. Li 346. KEELUNG: Tawulunshan, T. T. Chen 7819. TAIPEI: Hsichih, Lin 266; Pinglin, Liao 515. MIAOLI: Takoshan, Lin 3204. NANTOU: Lienhuachih, T. T. Chen 7769; Shuichangliu, Chiou & Hsu s. n. in 1969.

參考文獻

• YANG Yuen-Po , LU Sheng-You and CHEN Tien-Tsai, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 4: 411. 1998.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)