生活型

vine

形態特徵

• High climbing, slender, unarmed woody vines, to 5 m long, glabrate; pubescence of simple hairs.
• Leaves simple or pinnately compound, 4–10 cm long, 4–7 cm wide, apex acute or acuminate, base acute, obtuse, truncate, or cordate, usually pinnately (5-)7(–9)-parted, lobes ovate to oblong or lanceolate, unequal, 1.5–5 cm long, 0.5–2.5 cm wide, puberulent along veins; petiole 2–5 cm long.
• Inflorescences leaf opposed or appearing terminal, showy, many-flowered open panicles; peduncle to 4 cm, branched; pedicel 5–10 mm long, abscissing nearly at base; calyx cupular, 2–3 mm, truncate or with minute, short, deltoid lobes, glabrous; corolla showy, blue-purple, rarely white, 0.9–1.3 cm long, lobes ovate-oblong, 2.5–4.5 mm long; filaments 2–3 mm; anthers free, 3–4 mm long, ovary and style glabrous.
• Berry (not seen in Taiwanese plants) red, juicy, globose, 1–2 cm across; seeds discoid, 2–3.5 mm across.

分布

• 世界 : Perhaps native of the Caribbean area, widely cultivated and naturalized in many countries.

引證標本

NANTOU: Liehhuachih, Wang 1149. PENGHU: Hsingjen, Chen 716. PINGTUNG: Pingtung City, D'Arcy 19279; Kenting National Park, Sheting Park, Liu 296.

參考文獻

• William G. D'Arcy and Peng, Ching-I, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 4: 576. 1998.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)