生活型

tree

形態特徵

• Small trees, to 6 m tall; branchlets puberulent when young, glabrescent.
• Leaves chartaceous, ovate or elliptic-ovate, 8–13 cm long, 3–6 cm wide, apex acuminate, margin entire, slightly puberulent along veins, lateral veins 6–8 pairs, nigrescent in drying; petiole 1.5–3.7 cm long.
• Inflorescence a corymb-like thyrse, sparsely pubescent; bracteoles linear. Calyx somewhat 4- or 5-lobed, puberulent and punctate outside; corolla greenish-white, 2-lipped, 4-lobed, 3.5–4.5 mm long, tube glabrous outside, villous in throat inside, lobes long orbicular, rounded.
• Drupes globose, dark purple, ca. 5 mm across.

分布

• 台灣 : in forests in the southern part.
• 世界 : China (Hainan).

引證標本

PINGTUNG: Nanjenshan, Lu 19231; Chialosui, Lu 19237.

參考文獻

• YANG Yuen-Po , LU Sheng-You and CHEN Tien-Tsai, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 4: 422. 1998.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)