生活型

shrub

形態特徵

• Glabrous shrubs 0.5–2 m tall.
• Leaves unequal-paired, major leaves entire, elliptic to oblong, sometimes broadly so, 4–9 cm long, 2–3.5 cm wide, apex rounded, base attenuate, decurrent on petiole and stem; petiole 1–1.5 cm, winged by leaf bases; minor leaves broad and rounded, 1.5–3 cm long, 1.2–2.2 cm wide, subsessile, caducous on 2nd or 3rd nodes below plant apex.
• Inflorescences leaf opposed, short scorpioid racemes, often subumbellate; peduncle short, unbranched, later with conspicuous pedicel scars; pedicel 5–12 mm; calyx constricted at base and just below lobes, 2–2.5 mm long, lobes deltoid, 1 mm long, minutely ciliolate; corolla white, 3.5–4.5 mm long, lobed 3/4 to base; filaments short; anthers stout, 1–1.5 mm long; ovary glabrous.
• Berry orange, globose, slightly 2-lobed, 7–12 mm across; fruiting pedicel erect, 0.8–1.4 cm; seeds yellow or tan, reniform-discoid, 2–3 mm across, margins thickened.

分布

• 台灣 : cultivated as a hedge and escaped.
• 世界 : Native of Mexico and Central America.

引證標本

TAIPEI: Nankang, Wang 754; Shihfenliao Fall, Hsiao 1298. CHIAYI: Chiayi City Botanical Garden, Yen 9348. KAOHSIUNG: Takangshan, D'Arcy 19268; Wanshoushan, Leu 962. PINGTUNG: Oluanpi, Lammers 8489; Pingtung city, Chang 9259.

參考文獻

• William G. D'Arcy and Peng, Ching-I, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 4: 566. 1998.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)