作者

YANG, YUEN PO and LU, SHENG YOU

型態特徵

Evergreen shrubs or trees. Leaves opposite or alternate, estipulate. Flowers monoecious, small, apetalous; sepals 4 or wanting, or 4–12 (in pistillate flowers); stamens 4 or numerous, opposite to the sepals, the anthers basifixed; ovary supperior, mostly 3 locular; ovules mostly 2, rarely 1, pendulous. Fruit a dehiscent capsule or slightly fleshy. Seed albuminous.

屬

Six genera, mostly in tropical and subtropical regions, few in temperate areas. Three genera with five taxa in Taiwan.

引用文獻

• YANG, YUEN PO and LU, SHENG YOU, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 3: 666. 1993.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit., 台灣植物誌第二版)