生活型

shrub

形態特徵

• Shrubs; branchlets densely stellate and dendritic hairy.
• Leaves mostly elliptic, ovate or obovate, usually 7–18 cm long, 3–11 cm wide, apex acute to acuminate, base cuneate, obtuse or rounded, margin usually serrulate to serrate, with cup-shaped glands mostly at base, slightly yellow glandular dotted or not adaxially, densely so abaxially, with loose to subdensely stellate and dendritic hairs mixing with setulose hairs adaxially, densely so abaxially, lateral veins 6–10(–13) pairs; petioles 1–2 cm long, densely dendritic hairy.
• Inflorescence 6–10-branched; peduncles usually 1–2 cm long; bracts linear to lanceolate. Pedicels usually less than 1 mm long; calyx ca. 1 mm long, teeth shallowly triangular, tube densely stellate hairy, loosely yellow glandular dotted outside; corolla lobes obtuse to rounded at apex, purple to pinkish or rarely white adaxially, white to pinkish and glabrous or sparsely hairy and sparsely yellow glandular-dotted abaxially, tube ca. 2 mm long, glabrous; stamens 5–8 mm long, filaments glabrous; ovary yellow glandular-dotted at apex.
• Fruit globose to ellipsoid, up to 4 mm across, glabrous and yellow glandular dotted at apex, purple when ripe.

分布

• 台灣 : very common in thickets and roadside throughout the island, low to 2,300 m elevations.
• 世界 : Distributed from southeastern to southern China, the Philippines(?), Japan (Okinawa).

引證標本

SW. of Formosa: Wilford 493. Formosa: Swinhoe s. n. in 1862, U. Faurie, 8019. ILAN: Chilan, T. T. Chen 8044; Nanao. KEELUNG: Keelung, T. T. Chen 7816. TAIPEI: Tamsui, Oldham 388, 389 (Kew, photo of Syntype), Watters 23. TAOYUAN: Hsiayunku, T. T. Chen 7242; Hutoushan. HSINCHU: Hengshan, Wang 769. MIAOLI: Chuolan, T. C. Huang et al. 15604; Kuantaoshan. TAICHUNG: Chingshan, T. T. Chen 8253; Hsinshe. NANTOU: Hohuanchih, Hsinyi Hsiang, Chiang 107. CHIAYI: Alishan to Hsitou, T. T. Chen 7685; KAOHSIUNG: Shoushan, T. T. Chen 7592; Tienchih, T. T. Chen 7618. PINGTUNG: Kaoshihfo, T. T. Chen 7463; TAITUNG: Anshuo, T. T. Chen 7783; HUALIEN: Chimeitsun, T. T. Chen 7550.

參考文獻

• YANG Yuen-Po , LU Sheng-You and CHEN Tien-Tsai, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 4: 406. 1998.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)