生活型

shrub

形態特徵

• Evergreen shrubs; branchlets yellow glandular-dotted and stellate hairy, glabrate, usually purple-brown when young.
• Leaves oblong, oblanceolate or narrowly elliptic, 6–12 cm long, 2–4 cm wide, both ends acute to acuminate, margin remotely denticulate to serrulate, cup-shaped glandular at base, sparsely yellow glandular-dotted on both surfaces when mature, stellate hairy along midrib when young, subglabrous when mature, lateral veins 7–10 pairs; petioles mostly less than 1 cm long, extremely densely brownish stellate hairy.
• Inflorescence 5–7-branched; peduncles 1–2 cm long, usually dark purple; bracts linear and rarely leafy at rachis of first branches. Pedicels about 1 mm long; calyx ca. 1.5 mm long, teeth shallowly triangular, glabrous adaxially, sparsely yellow glandular-dotted and stellate hairy abaxially, tube sparsely yellow glandular-dotted outside; corolla lobes obtuse to rounded at apex, sparsely yellow glandular-dotted abaxially, whitish to pinkish adaxially, whitish abaxially, tube about 2.5 mm long, glabrous; filaments glabrous; ovary naked or sparsely yellow glandular-dotted on upper part.
• Fruit globose, to 4 mm across, glabrous, purple when ripe.

分布

• 台灣 : On margins of forests at low altitudes in south cape of the island (up to 1000 m).

引證標本

PINGTUNG: Chialoshui, Chang s. n. in 1998; Nanjenshan, T. T. Chen 7275; Shuchia, J. L. Wang s. n. in 1965. TAITUNG: Kueitien, T. T. Chen 7587.

參考文獻

• YANG Yuen-Po , LU Sheng-You and CHEN Tien-Tsai, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 4: 413. 1998.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)