生活型

climber

形態特徵

• Plants scandent. Stems terete, 2.5-4 cm thick.
• Leaves pinnatifid near base, ovate-elliptic, 30-50 cm long, 20-35 cm broad, apex acuminate, base broadly subcordate; lateral segments 12 or 13 on each side, narrowly lanceolate to somewhat falcate, terminal segment usually subrhomboid; petiole 10-30 cm long.
• Peduncle 5-10 cm long, enveloped by sheath; spathe oblique, 10-12 cm long, acuminate; spadix bisexual, sessile, cylindrical, 10-15 cm long, obtuse; style thick cylindrical; stigma flat, 5-angled ovary 1-celled, ovules 2-4, only one maturing, ovule stalk subglabrous.
• Fruit ellipsoid, ca. 5 mm across. Seed reniform, pale yellow, stalk of seed cat pale golden fleshy.

分布

• 台灣 : abundant, from low elevations to 2,000 m.
• 世界 : Malaysia, Australia, Papua New Guinea, Indochina, mainland China, the Philippines and Polynesia.

引證標本

TAIPEI: Hsintien, Simizu 3224; Muchushan, Shimzu 5005. ILAN: Sasaki 5458. TAICHUNG: Yasukawa 5459. NANTOU: Hoshe, Huang 2023. CHIAYI: Funchihu, Huang. & Hsiao 17390*. PINGTUNG: Oluanpi, Fukuyama 705: Hsiaoliuchiu Is., Hosokawa 1660. HUALIEN: Huang, Wu, Fang & Hsiao. 17319* TAITUNG: Lanyu Is., Miyake 5461; Lutao Is., Kawakami 5460.

參考文獻

• HUANG, Tseng-Chieng, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 5: 681. 2000.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)