生活型

shrub

形態特徵

• Small shrubs, deciduous, winter buds naked; branchlets stellate tomentose.
• Leaves membranaceous, oblong-ovate to oblong-lanceolate, 8–15 cm long, 4–6 cm wide, apex acuminate, base obtuse to rounded or cordate, margin serrulate to subentire, upper surface glabrous, dark, midrib and veins impressed, lower surface pale, stellate pubescent along veins and veinlets, midrib and veins raised; lateral veins 4 or 5 per side, ascending, veinlets parallel; petiole 1–4 cm long, stellate pubescent.
• Inflorescences terminal compound cymes, 4–5 cm across; peduncle 3–7 cm long; calyx tube ca. 2 mm long, slightly pubescent, limb campanulate, ca. 1 mm long; corolla tubular, ca. 3.5 mm long, red outside, white inside, lobes triangular, ca. 1 mm across, rounded.
• Fruits ellipsoid, ca. 6 mm long and 4 mm across, red to black

分布

• 台灣 : in forests throughout the island, 1,300–2,600 m.
• 世界 : China and Japan.

引證標本

TAIPEI: Suzuki 7040. ILAN: Taipingshan, Keng 1204, Suzuki s. n. 1925; Yuanyanghu, S. Y. Lu 20167. TAICHUNG: Pahsienshan, Kanehira 21164. NANTOU: Kawakami & Mori 1119 (Type of V. taiwanianum). Luantashan, Kawakami & Mori 7033 (Type of V. taiwanianum). CHIAYI: Alishan, Price 104; Yushan, Kawakami & Mori 1720 (Type of V. taiwanianum). KAOHSIUNG: Kawakami & Mori 3139. PINGTUNG: Peitawushan, D. W. Liu 112. HUALIEN: Hoping logging tract, S. Y. Lu 12695.

參考文獻

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