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
Saurauia 水冬瓜屬
作者
PENG, JEN-JYE and LU, FU-YUAN
型態特徵
Small trees or shrubs; branches usually brown with whitish tubercular dots, at first more or less strigose or scaly. Leaves approximate at ends of blanches, usually serrate, with parallel veins diverging from midrib more or less strigose or scaly. Inflorescence lateral, often from axils of fallen leaves, cymose, subpaniculate, rarely few-flowered; bracts usually small, flowers usually hermaphroditic; sepals 5, imbricate; petals 5, usually connate at base; stamens many, anthers dehiscing by pores; ovary 3-5-celled; styles 3, distinct or connate; ovules many. Fruit baccate, rarely dry and dehiscent.
