生活型

vine

形態特徵

• Left-twining (sinistrorse) pilose vine with large subterranean tubers; stems terete, brown villose, 1-2 mm thick, sparingly spiny or at least with 2 spines near node; spines curved, 0.6 cm long, pale green or purplish on upper part.
• Leaves alternate, yellowish green, chartaceous; blades rounded or broadly ovate, base cordate or auriculate, apex acute, 5-13 cm long, 6-15 cm wide, entire, pubescent or glabrous above, whitish or yellowish pilose beneath; nerves 7-9, furcate; petioles green, sulcate above, dilated at both ends, 2.5-8 cm long, base spiny or spineless in young leaves.
• Flower unkown.

分布

• 台灣 : Southern Taiwan.

引證標本

KAOHSIUNG: Dashu, Hsiao s. n. 1997. TAITUNG: Chihben, Sasaki s. n. 1934.

參考文獻

• HUANG, Tseng-Chieng and HSIAO, Jin-Long, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 5: 93. 2000.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)