生活型

shrub

形態特徵

• Shrubs or subshrubs to 1.5 m tall; pubescence yellowish, of simple, often moniliform hairs mixed with many-celled ones.
• Leaves dimorphic, the major leaves elliptic-ovate, 9–15 cm long, 5–7 cm wide, apex acute or acuminate, base cuneate, sparsely pubescent, more densely so beneath; petiole 0.5–4 cm long; minor leaves broadly ovate, 2.5–4 cm long, 2–3 cm wide; petiole 0.5–4 cm long.
• Inflorescences several-flowered fascicles in leaf axils; pedicel 0.5–2 cm long. Calyx cupular, 3–6 mm long, 10-dentate, teeth linear-awl-shaped, 2–3 mm long; corolla pale purple or white, often drying dark, to 8–10 mm long, lobes lanceolate, 6 mm long; filaments l mm long, anthers 3–3.5 mm long, sometimes pubescent.
• Berry red, globose, 6–9 mm across; fruiting calyx pubescent with simple and branched hairs, teeth slightly longer than in flower; seeds numerous, pale yellow, ovate to subtriangular, 1.5–2 mm across, reticulate.

分布

• 台灣 : in thickets throughout the interior (100–2,300 m).
• 世界 : India (Sikkim), Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines and mainland China.

引證標本

TAIPEI: Wulai, Liao 411. KEELUNG: Keelungyu Is., Peng, 14127. ILAN: Nanfangao, Peng 13736; Chiaohsi, Lungtanhu, Liu 529. TAOYUAN: Kaop'o, Lammers 8506; Tachi, Yang 5018. HSINCHU: Shihtoushan, Peng 14829; Wufeng, Chingchuan, Wang 62. MIAOLI: Shihtan, Leu 1052; Taina, Lin 564. TAICHUNG: Wushihkeng, Yang 6819. NANTOU: Huisun Experimental Forest, Wu 6. CHIAYI: Chuchi, Yen 8400; Fanlu, Tinghsi, Wang 787. TAINAN: Nanhsi, Tsengwen Dam, Peng 13394. KAOHSIUNG: Taoyuan, Ho 950. PINGTUNG: Chunjih, Leu 641; Nanjenshan, Wang 544. HUALIEN: Taroko Natl. Park, Peng 14524; Yuli, Yang 5045. TAITUNG: Yenping, Hungyeh Village, Leu 823; Lanyu Is., Huang et al. 10675.

參考文獻

• William G. D'Arcy and Peng, Ching-I, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 4: 552. 1998.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)