生活型

herb

形態特徵

• Plants 1-1.5 m, glabrous.
• Petiole 1-2 cm long. Blade oblong to lanceolate, 25-40 by 8-12 cm, tip acuminate, base round or cuneate; ligule entire, 0.5-1 cm long; Inflorescence thyrse, with two ascending lateral peduncles, erect, glabrous; bract minute, deciduous; rachilla 3-5 mm long, with 3-4 flowers.
• Flowers pedicellate, pedicels 0.1-0.2 cm long, without bracteole; calyx white, cylindric, tubular, 3-toothed, 0.8 cm long; corolla-tube longer than the calyx, with 3 equal lobes, lobes oblong, 1 cm long; labellum white, with red spots, shorter than corolla-lobe, fan-shape, short-clawed, then expanding abruptly into a subreniform 4-lobed limb, the lobes subequal, the lowest one broadest; staminodes subulate, 0.3 cm long; anther 0.5 by 0.2 cm; filament 0.4 cm long,; stigma clavate, ciliated orifice; style slender, 2 cm long; epyginous gland 0.3 cm long; ovary deep green, glabrous, 0.2 by 0.2 cm.
• Fruits berrylike, orange-red, globose, 0.9 by 1 cm, smooth, glabrous. Seeds 1-3, dark brown, without aril.

分布

• 台灣 : Lutao and Lanyu islands.
• 世界 : The Ryukyus and the Philippines.

引證標本

TAITUNG: Lanyu Is., Peng 10806, Wang 6094; Lutao Is., Sasaki s. n. 3 Jan 1929.

參考文獻

• WANG, Jenn-Che, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 5: 708. 2000.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)