討論:高山白珠樹
山羊百科，林文智老師的植物、山岳、攝影紀錄
1. Gaultheria itoana Hayata 高山白珠樹
A small evergreen shrub; stems and branchlets pubescent to glabrescent. Leaves thickly chartaceous, short-petiolate, oblong, 10-15 mm long, 3-7 mm broad, acute to obtuse, acute at base, serrate and slightly recurved on margins, glabrous, the midrib and veins impressed to indistinct above, slightly raised to obscure beneath, the lateral veins 2-3 per side, inconspicuous; petioles scarcely 1 mm long. Flowers in pseudo-terminal racemes about 2 cm long; pedicels 2-3 mm long; bracts usually 2, ovate, about 2 mm long, acute, pubescent, persistent; calyx 5-lobed, the lobes ovate; corolla white, ovoid-tubular, 4-5 mm long, the lobes minute; ovary pubescent. Berry globose, white, about 6 mm thick.
Endemic, in central ranges, on high mountain peaks in open places at altitudes of 2,250-3,600 m or higher.
ILAN: Taipingshan, Keng 1210. TAICHUNG: Hsiaohsuehshan, Liu et al. 298. NANTOU: Luantashan, Kawakami & Hayata s. n. in 1908. CHIAYI: Mt. Alishan, Keng 1154; Yushan, Mori 1887. HUALIEN: Nengkaoshan, Bartlett 6213; Mukuashan, Liu et al. 276.
Gaultheria itoana is very close to G. borneensis Rendle (Including G. benguetensis Copel.) of the Philippines and Borneo, but differs by a shorter distinctly globose-suburceolate corolla (see Sleumer, Fl. Males. I. 6(5): 679. 1967).
25.臺灣白珠 Gaultheria taiwaniana S. S. Ying in Quart. Journ. Chin. For. 9(4）: 136. 1976.
小灌木，莖枝無毛，纖細，高10-30釐米。葉長圓形、卵狀長圓形或長圓狀披針形，長1-1.5釐米，寬4-7毫米，先端鈍或漸尖，基部楔形，革質，兩面無毛，邊緣上部有小鋸齒，下部全緣，中脈在背面隆起，在表面下陷，側脈每邊2-3，在背面稍明顯；葉柄長1-2毫米，無毛。花單生葉腋，苞片卵形，長1-2毫米，寬0.5-0.8毫米，先端急尖，全緣，花梗長3-4毫米，纖細，無毛；花萼倒圓錐形，小，綠色，5裂，裂片三角形，長1-1.5毫米，先端急尖；花冠壇形，白色，長3.5-4.5毫米，寬3-3.5毫米，先端縊縮明顯，5裂，裂片小，卵狀三角形，長0.2-0.3毫米，先端鈍；雄蕊10枚，內藏，著生於花冠基部，花絲長約1.5毫米；子房球形，被短柔毛，花柱絲狀，長約1毫米。果未見。
產我國臺灣。模式標本采自南投合歡山。
