生活型

tree-shrub

形態特徵

• Shrubs or trees, subglabrous, puberulous, or tomentose with white or light brown or brown multicellular hairs.
• Leaves ovate, triangular-ovate to triangular, 6–20 cm long 3.5–12 cm wide, subglabrous or puberulous or tomentose on surfaces, apex acute, acuminate or short caudate, base truncate, subcordate, or acute, margin entire or remotely serrulate, lateral veins 4 or 5 pairs; petioles 1.5–10 cm long, subglabrous or puberulous or tomentose.
• Inflorescence a compound cyme with 2–3 branches, very rarely a simple cyme, axillary or subterminal, subglabrous or puberulous or tomentose and glandular, bracteoles usually linear, sometimes elliptic; peduncle 2–5 cm long. Flowers white; calyx greenish, becoming purple, 10–13 mm long, subglabrous or tomentose outside, 5-lobed, lobes ovate or triangular ovate, 3-veined; corolla tube ca. 2 cm long glabrous outside, puberulous inside, lobes oblong, ca. 1 cm long, 0.5 cm wide; stamens 4, exserted.
• Fruit blue, globose, subtended by reddish calyx.
• Many intermediate forms, ranging from nearly glabrous variation (=var. <i>fargesii</i>) to tomentose (var. <i>ferrugineum</i>) can be seen in Taiwan.

分布

• 台灣 : common throughout the island from low to medium elevations.
• 世界 : India, SE. Asia, China, Korea, and Japan.

引證標本

ILAN: Taipingshan, T. T. Chen 8707; Shenmihu, T. T. Chen 7260. TAIPEI: Wulai, T. T. Chen 7814; Patoutse, T. T. Chen 9031. MIAOLI: Talu logging trail, J. C. Wang & K. C. Yang 4845. HSINCHU: Kuanwu, T. C. Huang 4125; Wufeng, K. Y. Wang 22. TAICHUNG: Wuling, T. C. Huang 7036. NANTOU: Sanlinshih, W. S. Tang 503. CHIAYI: Alishan, Y. F. Chen 5366; Fengchihu, C. I. Peng 15040. TAINAN: Kuantzelin, T. C. Huang & S. F. Huang 15987. KAOHSIUNG: Nanfengshan logging trail, T. T. Chen 7532; Tienchih, T. T. Chen 7619. PINGTUNG: Sashih logging trail, T. T. Chen 0735; Haucha, T. T. Chen 7737. TAITUNG: Lichia logging trail, T. T. Chen 7704; Kueitien, T. T. Chen 7585. HUALIEN: Hueitouwan, T. T. Chen s. n.; Luanshan, , C. S. Kuo et al. 6964.

參考文獻

• YANG Yuen-Po , LU Sheng-You and CHEN Tien-Tsai, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 4: 419. 1998.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)