生活型

shrub

形態特徵

• Shrubs to 3 m tall, brownish tomentose; branchlets tetragonal.
• Leaves broadly ovate or subcordiform, 8–16 cm long, 4–9 cm wide, apex obtuse, acute to acuminate, base subtruncate, truncate to subcordate, margin entire, remotely dentate or serrate, upper surface puberulous, lower surface villous; petiole 3–10 cm long.
• Cymes terminal or axillary, with many flowers in a head; bracts prominent, leaf-like, broadly elliptic to broadly ovate, 0.5–1.5 cm long; calyx green, becoming red in fruit, ca. 1.3 cm long, membranaceous, deeply 5-lobed, lobes ovate to broadly ovate; corolla white, puberulent outside, tube slender, ca. 1.5 cm long, lobes obovate-oblong; stamens exserted.
• Fruit dark blue to black, subglobose.

分布

• 台灣 : in the central, northern and eastern parts.
• 世界 : India, Vietnam and mainland China.

引證標本

TAIPEI: Tatungshan, M. T. Kao 9027; Wulai, T. T. Chen 7814. TAOYUAN: Kueishan, T. T. Chen 8000; Futoushan Park, T. T. Chen 8057. TAICHUNG: Hsinshe, T. T. Chen 7850.

參考文獻

• YANG Yuen-Po , LU Sheng-You and CHEN Tien-Tsai, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 4: 416. 1998.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)