Cleome 白花菜屬
型態特徵
Herbs with erect or procumbent stems, glandular pubescent or glabrate. Leaves alternate, palmately dissected or compound, often 3–5-foliolate. Inflorescence leafy; flowers in terminal racemes flowers bisexual, occasionally unisexual, white, yellow or pink; sepals 4, patent; petals 4, entire, with long claws; stamens 6, 8–16, frequently, filaments connate with gynophore to form a monadelphous column at base (androgynophore); ovary sessile or with long gynophore; stigma small capitate or 2–lobed; placentas 2, ovules many. Capsule erect, often elongate, very often stipitate, opening by 2 valves. Seeds orbicular to reniform, black, testa rugose or tuberculate.
More than 15 species, mainly in tropical areas, a few cosmopolitan; Four species in Taiwan.
參考文獻
- LIU, TANG-SHUI and LIAO, JIH-CHING, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 2: 734. 1996. (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)
- Backer, C. A. & R. C. Bakhuizen, Florula Javanica 1: 182-183. 1963. (Fl. Jav.)
- Hewson, H. J., Flora Australiensis 8: 223-226. 1982. (Fl. Austral.)
- Mabberley, D. J., The Plant Book 467. 1981.
