屏东铁苋菜 ping dong tie xian cai

Acalypha grandis Bentham var. akoensis (Hayata) Hurusawa.

Shrubs, ca. 3 m tall. Young branchlets densely pubescent; branches reddish, glabrescent. Stipules lanceolate, ca. 12 mm, pilose; petiole 6-9 cm, densely pubescent; leaf blade ovate, 12-16 × 8-11 cm, slightly papyraceous, adaxially pilose, abaxially pubescent along veins, base subcordate to cordate, margin serrulate, apex caudate-acuminate; basal veins 5. Plants monoecious. Spikes unisexual, axillary. Male flowers glomerate; inflorescences 16-20 cm; peduncle ca. 1 cm, pubescent; bracts lax, ovate, ca. 0.7 mm, pilose; sepals 4, ca. 0.5 mm, pilose; stamens 8. Female flowers sessile, 2 in each bract; inflorescences 5-9 cm; peduncle ca. 1 cm, densely pubescent; bracts broadly ovate, 3-3.5 × ca. 5 mm, 10-denticulate, pilose; sepals 3, ovate, ca. 0.5 mm, acute, pilose; ovary hirsute; styles 3, 2.5-3 mm, 5-laciniate. Capsule 3-locular, ca. 2.5 mm in diam., pilose. Fl. Jul-Oct.

● Mountain slopes, thickets; 100-200 m. Taiwan.