Alangium 八角楓屬
作者
LU, SHENG-YOU
型態特徵
Trees or shrubs, sometimes spiny. Leaves alternate, simple, entire or lobed, estipulate. Flowers bisexual, actinomorphic, bracteate, in axillary cymes. Calyx-lobes 4–10, tooth-like or obsolete. Petals as many as the calyx-lobes valvate, linear to lorate, sometimes basally coherent. Stamens as many as petals or 2–4 times as many, distinct, arising from an enlarged disc; anthers 2-celled, dehiscing longitudinally. Ovary inferior, commonly 1- or rarely 2-celled, the ovule solitary, pendulous; style and stigma simple, or of 2–3 lobes. Fruit a drupe, usually crowned with the calyx-lobes, Seed with straight embryo and copious endosperm.
屬
Monogeneric.
參考文獻
Alangium 八角楓屬
型態特徵
Characters of the family.
About 22 species mostly in the tropical region. One species in Taiwan.