生活型

shrub

形態特徵

• Unarmed shrubs; pubescence of simple and branched hairs.
• Leaves narrowly oblong to lanceolate, 1–6 cm long, 0.5–1.5 cm wide, apex acute or obtuse, base cuneate, decurrent, entire or sinuate, pubescent or glabrous; petiole 2–5 mm long.
• Inflorescences leaf opposed or extra-axillary, of solitary (rarely paired) flowers or short racemes; peduncle short or obsolete; pedicel 3–4 mm long. Calyx 4 mm across, lobes 1.5 mm long; corolla white or mauve, 0.8–1.5 cm across, lobed to about middle; filaments less than 1 mm long, glabrous; anthers 2 mm long.
• Berry orange-red, fleshy, 1.2–1.5(–2) cm across; seeds discoid, 2–3 mm across.
• Cultivated as an ornamental and for the fruits.

分布

• 台灣 : persistent after cultivation, ca. 1,000 m alt.

引證標本

TAICHUNG: Wuling Farm, Shen 403. NANTOU: Wushe, Peng 15330; Lienhuachih, Ho 278. PINGTUNG: Wutai, D'Arcy 19292.

參考文獻

• William G. D'Arcy and Peng, Ching-I, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 4: 575. 1998.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)