生活型

tree-shrub

形態特徵

• Shrubs or small trees, to 7 m tall.; young branchlets with dense minute glands, soon glabrous.
• Leaves elliptic or ovate, rarely suborbicular or rhomboid, 3–8 cm long, 1.3–5.3 cm wide, apex acute or obtuse, sometimes rounded, base acute or obtuse, sometimes attenuate or subtruncate, glabrous on upper surface, densely minutely glandular on lower surface; petiole 0.3–1.2 cm long, densely minutely glandular.
• Inflorescence capitate, 3-flowered; bracteoles densely pubescent outside. Flowers yellowish white; calyx 4 or 5-lobed, connate at base, pubescent outside, glabrous inside, margin ciliate; corolla tube ca. 1.5 mm long, 4-lobed, glabrous outside, lobes triangularly ovate, densely pubescent outside, glabrous inside; ovary pubescent, style short, as long as anthers.
• Fruit compressed ovoid, 1.3–1.5 cm across, densely minutely glandular on surface, pubescent at tip.

分布

• 台灣 : along the west coast.
• 世界 : E. Africa, S. and SE. Asia, N. Australia and S. China.

引證標本

HSINCHU: Hsinfung, Y. T. Wu s. n. 1995. TAINAN: Anping, Y. T. Wu s. n. 1995; Lu-er-men, Y. T. Wu s. n. 1995. KAOHSIUNG: Yun-an, Y. T. Wu s. n. in 1995; Chietin, Y. T. Wu s. n. 1995. PINGTUNG: Tungkang, Y. T. Wu s. n. 1995.

參考文獻

• YANG Yuen-Po , LU Sheng-You and CHEN Tien-Tsai, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 4: 404. 1998.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)