作者

OHASHI, HIROYOSHI Aralia by OHASHI, HIROYOSHI and LU, SHENG-YOU

型態特徵

Shrubs, trees, or rarely perennial herbs, often prickly, sometimes scandent. Leaves alternate, petiolate, simple or compound; stipules present or absent. Inflorescence terminal, usually umbels or heads, sometimes racemose or spicate, the umbels or heads solitary, racemose, corymbose, paniculate or umbellate. Bracts usually small and deciduous. Flowers regular, mostly small, bisexual, polygamous or dioecious. Calyx-tube adnate to the ovary, lobes small or reduced to a rim, or rarely absent. Petals 5–10, valvate or imbricate, usually free. Stamens 5–10, alternate with and inserted on the petals at the edge of the disc, the anthers versatile, introrse, the locules 2, longitudinally dehiscent. Disc epigynous, fleshy, annular. Ovary inferior or half inferior, 1–15 ¬celled, the styles as many as the cells, free or connate; ovules solitary, anatropous. Fruit baccate or drupaceous; seeds solitary in pyrenes, the embryo small, the endosperm uniform or ruminated. X= 11, 12.

屬

About 60 genera and more than 800 species, in the tropical and temperate regions of both hemispheres. Ten genera in Taiwan.

參考文獻

• OHASHI, HIROYOSHI, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 3: 986. 1993.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)
• Hoo, G. & Tseng, C. J., Fl. Reipub. Popul. Sin. 54: . 1978.
• Philipson, W. R., Fl. Malesiana 9: 1-105. 1979.