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)
Marsdenia 牛彌菜屬
作者
LU, Fu-Yuan, KAO, Muh-Tsuen, HUANG, Shing-Fan and WANG, Jenn-Che
型態特徵
Twining shrubs or subshrubs, sometimes erect. Leaves opposite. Cymes umbelliform, terminal or axillary; flowers small or medium-sized; calyx 5-lobed; corolla campanulate, salverform or urceolate; corona 5-lobed, flat, with inflexed tips; pollinia oblong or ovate, pedicellate, erect; stigma flat, convex or beaked. Follicles ovate. Seeds comose.
