生活型

shrub

形態特徵

• Andromonoecious shrubs 1–2 m tall, sparingly armed, densely pubescent with many-rayed, grayish stellate hairs; prickles stout, recurved, reddish or pale yellow.
• Leaves solitary or paired, ovate or elliptic, 6–16(–19) cm long, 4–11(–13) cm wide, apex acute, base cordate or cuneate, entire, sinuate, or 5–7-lobed, with yellow, many-branched stellate hairs on both sides, sometimes armed; petiole 2–4 cm.
• Inflorescences mostly 1- or 2-branched, many-flowered, racemose; pedicel dark, slender, 5–12 mm long, with simple glandular hairs and sometimes stalked stellate hairs. Calyx pubescent as pedicel, cupular, 4–5 mm long, lobes ovate-lanceolate, 2–3 mm long; corolla white, 1–1.5 cm long, lobes ovate-lanceolate, 0.8–1 cm long; filaments 1 mm long, anthers 4–7 mm long; slender; ovary with short, erect, simple, glandular hairs at apex.
• Berry yellow, mucilaginous, 1–1.5 cm across, smooth, glabrous; seeds discoid, 1.5–2 mm across.
• The berries, mature or immature, often blacken with age.

分布

• 台灣 : roadsides and waste places at low elevations.
• 世界 : Native of the Caribbean, widely naturalized in tropical regions.

引證標本

ILAN: Wuchieh, Hsiaowei to Tapu, Wang & Lin 1490. HSINCHU: Hengshan, Peng 13297; Emei, Wang 728. NANTOU: Shenmu Village, Peng 6576. KAOHSIUNG: Taoyuan, Liu 427. PINGTUNG: D'Arcy 19281; Wutoushan, Wang 1024.

參考文獻

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