生活型

herb

形態特徵

• Unarmed climbing herbs; stems sometimes hollow, slightly angular, glabrate or puberulent with simple hairs.
• Leaves ovate or ovate-lanceolate, 3–13 cm long, 2–6.5 cm wide, distal leaves 1.5–1.8 cm long, 0.6 cm wide, apex acuminate, base rounded or cuneate, slightly oblique, entire, puberulent or glabrate above, glabrate beneath; petiole 0.7–1.5 cm long.
• Inflorescences extra-axillary, lax, open, many-flowered panicles; peduncle 2–10 cm long, glabrous to puberulent; pedicel 5–15 mm long, glabrous. Calyx 2.5 mm across, the lobes ovate-triangular or rounded, 0.5–1 mm long, mucronate, puberulent above; corolla white or dark blue with basal spots outside, tube 0.8 mm long, limb 4 mm long, lobes lanceolate, 1.3–5 mm long, apex pubescent, ciliate; filaments 0.5–1 mm, anthers free, 1.8–2.8 mm long; ovary glabrous.
• Berry shiny red, globose, 5–12 mm across; fruiting pedicel 12–15 cm long; fruiting calyx spreading; seeds yellowish, discoid, 1.5–3 mm across.

物候

Flowering in September, fruiting from December to February.

分布

• 台灣 : reported to climb on Taiwania trees, 900–1,000 m elevation.
• 世界 : Mainland China and northern Vietnam.

引證標本

MIAOLI: Erpensung-Hsuechien, Huang & Huang 15400. NANTOU: Mayfeng, Peng 14438. YUNLIN: Shihpi, Yang 8475. KAOHSIUNG: Taoyuan, Yang 7214.

參考文獻

• William G. D'Arcy and Peng, Ching-I, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 4: 571. 1998.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)