台灣羊桃

Actinidia chinensis sensu Nemoto, Fl. Jap. Suppl. 474. 1936; Suzuki in Masamune,Short Fl. Form. 137. 1936; Kanehira, Form. Tr. rev. ed. 449. pl. 406, 1936,non Planch.

Climbing shrubs to 8 m. or more; branches reddish-brown, with pale oblong lenticels, the young branchlets setose; pith large, lamellate, whitish or yellowish. Leaves chartaceous, mostly suborbicular, emarginate to shortly cuspidate, rounded to more or less cordate at the base, 6-12 cm. long and broad, minutely denticulate, the upper surface puberulous, the lower surface very pale, densely whitish stellate- tomentose, laterat veins 5-8 per side; petioles 3.5-7.5 cm.long, densely pubescent. Inflorescences in few-flowered cymes, from axils of fallen leaves, pubescent; peduncles about 1.5 cm. long; pedicels 1-2 cm. long; bracts minute, linear; flowers orange-yellow the staminate slightly smaller; sepals 5, sometimes 3 or 4, ovate-oblong, 8-10 mm. ong and 6-8 mm broad; petals 5, broadly obovate, shortly clawed, rounded at top, .4-1.5 cm long, 1-1.2 cm. broad; ovary subglobose, 6-7 mm. across, densely brownish illose; styles linear, 5-6 mm. long. Fruit subglobose to ellipsoid, about 3 cm. across, ensely brownish hirsute all over.

ILAN: 710 forest road, W. L. Wagner 6560(HAST). HSINCHU: Kuanwu, C. I. Peng 14939 HAST). TAICHUNG: Lileng forest road, M. Y. Shen 614(TESRI). NANTOU: Tienchih, C. C. Liao 1378(HAST). HUALIEN: Halun, C. I. Peng 7280(HAST).

Endemic. In forests at medium to high altitudes.