生活型

herb

形態特徵

• Armed, andromonoecious herbs to 1.5 m tall, densely pubescent throughout with pale yellow, many-celled stellate hairs; stems and branches with flat, erect or slightly recurved prickles 1–8 mm.
• Leaves ovate, 10–20 cm long, 8–18 cm wide, apex acute, base truncate or subhastate, 5–11-sinuate lobed, pubescent, more densely so beneath, prickly along veins; petiole 3–8 cm, often prickly.
• Inflorescences extra-axillary, several flowered, scorpioid-racemose, 1.2–2 cm long; peduncle 3 mm long; pedicel 1 cm long. Calyx lobes narrow in bud, splitting and becoming ovate, 8–10 mm long; corolla white, subrotate, 2 cm long; filaments very short, anthers lanceolate, acuminate, 7–8 mm long; ovary pubescent.
• Berry orange, globose, 2 cm across, with dense, persistent stellate tomentum; fruiting pedicel to 1.5 cm long; fruiting calyx somewhat enlarged, reflexed; seeds brown, 2 mm across.

分布

• 台灣 : roadsides and other disturbed areas.
• 世界 : Widely distributed in southeast Asia.

引證標本

NANTOU: Toushe, Shimada 1908. CHIAYI: Pinlin, Kao 10353. KAOHSIUNG: Shoushn, D’Arcy 19275; Taoyuan, Wang 777. PINGTUNG: South Cape, Henry 358; Bankinsing, Henry 449. TAITUNG: Yungkangshan, Lu 18598; Lanyu Is., Huang.

參考文獻

• William G. D'Arcy and Peng, Ching-I, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 4: 567. 1998.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)