生活型

shrub-herb

形態特徵

• Pseudostem subcylindrical, 2.5 m or taller, tufted.
• Inflorescence slightly curved and pendulous; bracts ovate-lanceolate, 7-8 cm long, 3-3.5 cm wide, strongly concave, dark purplish red; flowers 8 per bract, arranged in 2 series, sessile; Male flowers: perianth cylindrical, 3-3.5 cm long, 5-lobed (3 lobes in outer row, 2 lobes in inner row); lobes of outer row: lateral ones oblong-triangular, 5-5.5 mm long, ca. 4 mm wide, obtuse, entire; central one ovate, 3.5 mm long and wide, obtuse; lobes of inner row obliquely ovate, ca. 4-4.5 mm long, 3 mm wide, obtuse, base cordate or auricule; posterior lobe of inner row always free, elliptic-obovate, 1.5-2 cm long, ca.1 cm wide, truncate or emarginate, and shortly cuspidate at apex; stamens 5, equalling perianth or shorter; filaments green, filiform, ca.1 cm long; anthers linear, connective slightly elongate, style column filiform, equalling stamens apex, clavate. Female flowers unknown. Rachis terete, 3 cm in diam., densely pubescent.
• Immature fruits obliquely tetragonal, stipitate; fruiting stalk densely pubescent.
• Hayata (1913) also described <i>M. textilis</i> var. <i>tashiroi</i> from Lanyu Island (Kotosho), but Liu and Liao (1971) determined the variety to be the same as var. <i>textilis</i>.

分布

• 台灣 : Primary forests; known only from Lanyu Is.; rather rare.

引證標本

TAITUNG: Lanyu Is., Fogg s. n. 1975.

參考文獻

• YING, Shao-Shun, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 5: 704. 2000.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)