生活型

shrub

形態特徵

• Deciduous shrubs; branchlets yellow glandular dotted and dendritic hairy, glabrate.
• Leaves chartaceous to subcoriaceous, narrowly rhombic-elliptic, obovate or oblong-obovate, 6–15 cm long, 1–4 cm wide, apex acuminate, base cuneate, obtuse, rounded or subcordate, margin serrate, with cup-shaped glands mainly at base, sparsely yellow glandular dotted adaxially and subdensely so abaxially, loosely to densely stellate and dendritic hairy on both surfaces of flowering branches and usually distinctly glabrate on fruiting ones, lateral veins 5–10 pairs; petioles less than 1 cm long, densely dendritic hairy.
• Inflorescence 5–7-branched; peduncle usually 1–2 cm long; bracts linear. Pedicel 0.5–1 mm long; calyx ca. 2 mm long, teeth shallowly triangular, tube loosely yellow glandular dotted and subdensely stellate hairy outside; corolla lobes obtuse to rounded, purple adaxially, loosely yellow glandular dotted and stellate hairy abaxially, tube ca. 2.5 mm long; stamens 6–9 mm long, filaments glabrous; ovary yellow glandular dotted and stellate hairy on upper part.
• Fruit globose, to 4 mm across, glabrous or sparsely stellate hairy at apex, purple when ripe.

分布

• 台灣 : Margins of forests and thickets at 500–1000 m in the northern part of the island.

引證標本

ILAN: Fushan Botanical Garden, T. T. Chen s. n. in 1983; Tachi, K. C. Yang et W. L. Chiou 5181. TAIPEI: Chutzehu (Tikusiko), T. Nakamura 3968 (TAI, Type); Shihpai, T. T. Chen 7837; Tatunshan, T. T. Chen 7756. TAOYUAN: Mingchih to Chilan, S. Y. Lu 16427. HUALIEN: Hoping logging trail, S. Y. Lu 16304.

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.)