特徵描述
作者
PENG, JEN-JYE and LU, FU-YUAN
型態特徵
Trees, shrubs or woody vines. Leaves simple, alternate, estipulate. Flowers bisexual or unisexual, in cymes or panicles, sepals 5; petals 5, usually imbricate; stamens 10 to many, distinct or adnate to the base of the petals, hypogynous; anthers 2-celled, versatile, dehiscing by apical pores or longitudinally; ovary 3-5 or more-celled, placentation axile, ovules with a single integument, numerous in each locule, anatropous; styles usually as many as the ovary cells, distinct or connate, generally persistent. Fruit a berry or leathery capsule. Seeds non-arillate, usually with large embryos and abundant endosperm.
屬
Four genera, primarily tropical Asiatic and American; two genera in Taiwan.
參考文獻
Actinidia 獼猴桃屬
作者
PENG, JEN-JYE and LU, FU-YUAN
型態特徵
Dioecious, glabrous, strigose or tomentose climbing shrubs or vines. Leaves entire or serrate, pinnate-veined. Flowers polygamous or in axillary cymes, rarely solitary; sepals 5, imbricate, more or less connate at the base; petals 5, imbricate; stamens many, anthers dehiscing by slits; ovary many-celled, styles as many as ovary cells, divergent, elongating after flowering. Fruit baccate, containing raphides. Seeds numerous.
參考文獻
- PENG, JEN-JYE and LU, FU-YUAN, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 2: 656. 1996. (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)
- Li, H. L., Journal of the Arnold Arboretum 33: 1-61. 1952. (J. Arnold Arbor.)
