作者

HUANG, TSENG-CHIENG

型態特徵

Juicy herbs. Leaves usually alternate, simple, estipulate. Flowers zygomorphic, bisexual, solitary or racemose; sepals 3(–5), imbricate, unequal, the lowest spurred; stamens 5, the filaments connate at tip; ovary superior, 5-locular; stigmas 1–5; ovules numerous. Fruit a capsule; seeds without endosperm, the embryo straight.

屬

Two genera, with about 4,000 species, chiefly in tropical Asia and Africa, a few in temperate regions; one in Taiwan.

引用文獻

• HUANG, TSENG-CHIENG, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 3: 616. 1993.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit., 台灣植物誌第二版)