作者

HSIEH, Chang-Fu

型態特徵

Perennial mostly scapose herbs, often with subterranean bulbs or tubers, rarely with rhizomes. Leaves linear or oblong. Inflorescence umbellate or cymose. Flowers bisexual, actinomorphic or less often zygomorphic; tepals 6 in 2 series, free or connate, corona sometimes present. Stamens 6, inserted on perianth; filaments free or connate into a short tube; anthers versatile, 2-celled, dehiscing by vertical slits. Ovary inferior, 3-locular; ovules anatropous, often biseriately superposed; placenta axile or parietal. Fruit either a dehiscent or an indehiscent capsule or berry; seeds few.

屬

A family of about 100 genera and 1,200 species, widely distributed throughout the world. Two genera in Taiwan.

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作者

YING, Shao-Shun

型態特徵

Annual, biennal or perennial herbs; sometimes subshrubs or even shrubs, very rarely climbing; usually with a subterranean bulb, tuber, corm or rhizome, sometimes producing superterranean bulbils or rooting buds; stem present or absent; often erect or nearly so. Leaves simple, alternate or rarely verticillate to subopposite, membranaceous to chartaceous, or coriaceous or fleshy, some reduced to scales. Flowers mostly bisexual, rarely unisexual; actinomorphic to slightly zygomorphic, solitary, or in racemes, spikes panicles, umbels or subumbels; tepals mostly 6, rarely 4 or 8, free or connate at base and forming a tube, equal or more or less unequal. Stamens 6, rarely to 12 or fewer, hypogynous or adnate to and always opposite tepals; filaments free or variously connate; anthers 2-celled, oblong to linear, opening by a lengthwise slit or rarely by a terminal pore. Ovary usually superior, rarely half inferior, mostly 3-celled, rarely 1-celled or 4-celled; ovules numerous in each cell, biseriate, rarely 2, placentas parietal; style mostly 1, entire or more or less 3-fid. Fruit a berry or capsule; capsules loculicidal or septicidal; seeds solitary to numerous, endosperm abundant, fleshy or cartilaginous; embryo straight or curved.

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