生活型

tree-shrub

形態特徵

• Shrubs or small trees, 3–8 m tall, sub-dichotomously branched, deciduous; winter buds naked; branchlets stout, stellate pubescent.
• Leaves chartaceous, broadly ovate, 6–12 cm long, 6–8 cm broad, apex acute, base cordate, serrate, upper surface glabrous to pubescent along veins, lower surface more or less densely stellate pubescent along veins and veinlets; lateral veins 6–8 per side, strongly ascending, indistinct on upper surface, strongly raised on lower surface, ending in the marginal teeth, veinlets more or less parallel, distinct on lower surface; petiole 1–2 cm long, stellate pubescent.
• Inflorescences terminal corymbose cymes, 6–9 cm across, densely stellate pubescent, peduncle absent, often 5-rayed; marginal flowers sterile, large, long stalked, ca. 15 mm across, actinomorphic, inner flowers fertile, corolla 4–5 mm across.
• Fruits red to black, ellipsoid, ca. 8 mm long.

分布

• 台灣 : in forests throughout the island, 1,300–3,000 m.
• 世界 : China.

引證標本

ILAN: Taipingshan, Sasaki s. n. 1918; Yuanyanghu, S. Y. Lu 21186. TAIPEI: Peichiatienshan, B. L. Shie 1009. MIAOLI: Jenshan, J. C. Wang et al. 8399. TAICHUNG: Lishan, C. M. Kuo s. n. 1977. NANTOU: Danta forest Rd., Y. P. Yang s. n. 1977; Yuanfeng, K. C. Yang 4737. CHIAYI: Alishan, Wilson 9775; Yushan, Kawakami & Mori 2057. HUALIEN: Chingshuishan, W. L. Chiou & M. C. Ho s. n. 1983.

參考文獻

• YANG, Kuoh-Cheng and CHIU, Shau-Ting, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 4: 758. 1998.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)