Lepidagathis 鱗球花屬
型態特徵
Herbs or undershrubs. leaves entire or crenate-serrate. Flowers sessile, usually capitate, sometimes opposite or solitary, heads terminal or axillary, dense, usually 1-sided, often fascicled; bracts usually larger than calyx segments, rarely smaller; bracteoles 2, narrow; calyx deeply 5-lobed, segments unequal, anterior segments more or less connate; corolla tubular, suddenly ventricose in middle, limb bilabiate, lower lip 3-lobed, patent, usually spotted; stamens 4, didynamous; anthers 2-celled, cells oblong, muticous, parallel, or lower one somewhat divergent; disc annular or short cupular; stigma capitellate, minutely bifid or entire. Capsule 2- or 4-seeded, elongate, conical or oblong, often 4-angular; seeds compressed, ovate-oblong or orbicular.
About 100 species, chiefly in the tropics of the Old World; four species in Taiwan.
