生活型

vine

形態特徵

• Climbing vines. Stems woody, terete, to 5 m long, 8-10 mm thick. Flowering branches 30-50 cm long, 2.5-3.5 mm thick, terete, usually smooth, internodes 2-2.5 cm long, 2-3 mm thick.
• Leaves annual or winter green, somewhat spaced; blades broadly lanceolate, ellipsoid or ovate-oblong, 5-8(-10) cm long, 2-4(-6) cm wide, herbaceous to thick membranaceous, or sometimes thin coriaceous, base contracted, apex gradually or subabruptly narrowed, abruptly caudate; costas 5, including a fairly distinct marginal pair, all separate to base, distinct on upper surface, lateral veinlets spreading, ascending or slightly curved upward, reticulation dense, fine, not elongate; petiole 10-25 mm long, 1.2-1.5 mm thick, often bent upward above middle, 3-angled with subobtuse abaxial angle, sheathing 4-8 mm long: wings narrow, 0.5- 0.8 mm wide, hardly auriculate; tendrils vestigial on flowering branches, those on vegetative branches and stems 20 cm long.
• Inflorescences usually 1-umbellate, prophyllate at base, 3-7 mm long, bract 1, usually hidden by prophyll; prophylls broadly ovate, boat shaped, 3 mm long, apiculate, persistent, peduncle stout, straight 1-1.5 cm long; umbels of both sexes 1.5-2.5 mm across, 17-40-flowered; rays 1 cm long. Staminate perianth segments recurved at anthesis, outer and inner similar, oblong, obtuse, 3-4 mm long, 1 mm wide; stamens 6; filaments 2.5 mm long; anthers ellipsoid, 0.5 mm long. Pistillate perianth segments 1.5-2 mm long, erect to erect-patent, ellipsoid-ovate, subacute, 0.5-0.7 mm wide; ovary ovoid, 2 mm long; stigmas 0.7 mm long; staminodia needle-like 0.7-1 mm long.
• Berries ellipsoid-globose, 5-7 mm across, yellowish-red; seeds 1 or 2, suborbicular, 4.5 mm in diam.

物候

flowering in winter.

分布

• 台灣 : occasional in forests, 200-2,800 m.
• 世界 : From the Indian Himalaya through Myanmar, Thailand, Indochina and the Malesian region to Hainan, southeastern China.

引證標本

TAIPEI: Ayuhshan, Suzuki 18670; Chihsingshan, Shie 1046; Pinlin, Wang & Chen 9464; Wulai, Chang 2317. KEELUNG: Tawulunsha, Leu et al. 2004. ILAN: Chilaishan, Chang 4542, 4548; Sunglohu, Wang 1342; Taipingshan, Wang 1392. HSINCHU: Kuanwu, Wang 1363; Tapachienshan, Huang 74; Yuanyanghu, Hsu & Kuoh 14531. MIAOLI: Erhpensung, Huang & Huang 15389; Nanchuang, Hsu 12580, 12583, 12866; Shukuang, Wang 1176, 1179. TAICHUNG: nmanshan, Wang 1198; Tahsuehshan, Ou et al. 3212; Pahsienshan, Wang & Chung 613. NANTOU: Howang, Wang 1351, 1354; Hsitou, Hsu 5114; Lienhuachih, Chang 16296; Sun Moon Lake, Liu 3207. CHIAYI: Fengshan, Hwang & Chen 16; Alishan, Chen 10694; Tatungshan, Wang & Chang 515. KAOHSIUNG: Liukuei, Yang (51521): Chuyunshan, Wang 1367; Tienchih, Lin et al. 427. PINGTUNG: Chinshuiying, Huang10226; Chufengku, Wang & Chen (S710); Mutan, Ohashi et al. 13721; Nanjenshan, Chang 3876. HUALIEN: Huangma, Lu & Hung 1380; Juisui, Wang 557; Taosai, Suzukiet al. 11739.

參考文獻

• KOYAMA, Tetsuo, WANG, Kuang-Yuh, LU, Fu-Yuan, and OU, Chern-Hsiung. 2000. Flora of Taiwan, second edition 5: 117. (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)