太鲁阁胡颓子 tai lu ge hu tui zi

Shrubs, scandent or erect, 1-3 m tall. Young branches and buds silvery brown scaly. Petiole 3-5 mm; leaf blade abaxially silvery, adaxially dark green, elliptic, 2-5 × 1-2.5 cm, thinly leathery, adaxially with scattered persistent scales, lateral veins 5 or 6 per side of midrib, base acute to obtuse, apex acute to obtuse. Flowers solitary in axils of long shoots or 2-5 in a shortened raceme on short branches. Pedicel much shorter than calyx tube; fruiting pedicel shorter than fruit. Flowers white. Calyx tube 3.5-4.5 mm; lobes triangular-ovate, 3-3.5 mm. Filaments ca. 0.4 mm; anthers elliptic, ca. 1.2 mm. Style glabrous; stigma 3-3.5 mm, glandular-papillate. Drupe orange-pink, broadly ellipsoid to nearly globose, 8-10 mm. Seed 8-ribbed, 7-9 mm.

● Thickets; 300-900 m. E Taiwan (Hualian).