特徵描述
作者
LU, Fu-Yuan, KAO, Muh-Tsuen, HUANG, Shing-Fan and WANG, Jenn-Che
型態特徵
Herbs or shrubs, usually twining, with milky latex. Leaves opposite, rarely alternate or verticillate, usually entire, estipulate. Flowers perfect, regular, in terminal or axillary cymes or racemes; calyx of 5 imbricate lobes; corolla of 5 valvate lobes, overlapping to right; stamens 5, filaments free or usually united into a very short fleshy column (gynostegium) bearing a ring or corona; anthers adhering to stigma, 2-celled, pollen forming 1 or 2 waxy or granular masses (pollinia) in each cell, pollinia united in pairs to a gland on stigma;ovary superior,2-carpellate, enclosed within staminal column; styles 2, short, united into a discoid stigma; ovules many, 2-seriate in each carpel. Fruit of 1 or 2 Follicles, seeds compressed, usually winged and with a long tuft of hairs (coma); endosperm abundant; embryo large.
屬
About 250 genera and over 2,000 species, mostly in tropical and subtropical regions; 12 genera and 18 species in Taiwan.
參考文獻
- LU, Fu-Yuan, KAO, Muh-Tsuen, HUANG, Shing-Fan and WANG, Jenn-Che, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 4: 220. 1998. (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)
- Li, P. T., M. G. Gilbert and W. D. Stevens, Flora of China Family 16: 189-270. 1995. (Fl. China)
Gymnema 武靴藤屬
作者
LU, Fu-Yuan, KAO, Muh-Tsuen, HUANG, Shing-Fan and WANG, Jenn-Che
型態特徵
Twining shrubs. Leaves opposite. Flowers small, in dense umbelliform Cymes; calyx 5-lobed; corolla subrotate, campanulate, 5-lobed; corona wanting or of 5 fleshy lobes adnate to corolla tube; gynostegium short, anther tips small, membranaceous, inflexed; pollinia waxy, 2 per stamen, erect; stigma conical, clavate or capitate, exserted. Follicles terete, glabrous, acuminate.
