討論:蓮華池寄生

山羊百科，林文智老師的植物、山岳、攝影紀錄

10. Taxillus tsaii Chiu in Taiwania 41(2): 164. f. 5. 1996. 蓮華池寄生

This species is characterized by its yellowish green, ovate to ovate-oblong leaves, nearly concolorous when mature; corella nearly glabrous, anthers multiloculate in two rows; fruits cylindrical with apex truncate; flowering early spring to mid summer. Young branchlets terete, densely light orange-tomentose, the stellate hairs sparsely deciduous at maturity. Leaves yellowish green, coriaceous, ovate to ovate-oblong, 5-6 cm long, 3-4 cm broad, apex obtuse, base obtuse to rounded; petioles 7-10 mm long, stellate hairs sparsely deciduous, nearly concolorous when mature. Flowers tomentose, red with green apex. Calyx obconical, tomentose; corolla tube cylindric-spatulate swollen from middle to base, 1.6-2.2 cm long, lobes 4, linear, 4-6 mm long, 1 mm broad, concave, reflexed at apex; anthers multilocular in two rows, 2.5-3.5 mm long, ovary obconical, glabrous; styles filiform, 2.6 mm long; fruits cylindrical, apex truncate.

Endemic. Parasitic on Camellia oleifera Abel., Machilus zuihoensis Hayata, Prunus mume Sieb. & Zucc., Symplocos cochinchinensis (Lour.) Moore subsp. Laurina (Retz.) Noot. Etc. in warm areas as low altitude and southern Taiwan.

NANTOU: Lienhuachih, Chiu et al. 2554 (Holotype & isotype, NMNS; isotype, HAST), 2086, 2859, Sun s. n. 1993. KAOHSIUNG: Takuanshan, Chiu et al. 1373. TAITUNG: Liyuan, Chiu et al. 2713.