特徵描述
屬列表
Bothriospermum 細纍子草屬
Carmona 滿福木屬
Coldenia 生果草屬
Cordia 破布子屬
Cynoglossum 琉璃草屬
Ehretia 厚殼樹屬
Heliotropium 天芹菜屬
Lithospermum 紫草屬
Myosotis 勿忘草屬
Symphytum 聚合草屬
Thyrocarpus 盾果草屬
Tournefortia 紫丹屬
Trichodesma 碧果草屬
Trigonotis 附地草屬
標本列表
Cordia 破布子屬
型態特徵
Shrubs, trees or woody climbers; leaves alternate, entire, repand-crenate or slightly serrate. Flowers in terminal or axillary corymbiform cymes, bractless, hermaphroditic or sometimes functionally unisexual and dioecious. Calyx tubular or campanulate, completely closed before anthesis, afterwards irregularly 2–12 lobed or regularly 5 lobed, often accrescent and persistent in fruit. Corolla tubular, 4–8 lobed, white or yellow, fornices absent. Stamens shortly exserted or included. Ovary entire, 4-celled; style terminal, double bifid; stigma capitate. Fruit drupaceous, ovoid to ellipsoid, pyrenes 1, with 1–4 seeds, endocarp bony.
About 250 to 300 species, widely distributed in tropical regions of both hemispheres; 2 species in Taiwan.
