特徵描述
作者
YANG, Kuoh-Cheng and CHIU, Shau-Ting
型態特徵
Mostly shrubs or woody vines, rarely small trees or herbs. Leaves opposite, simple or pinnately compound; stipules absent or very small. Inflorescence basically cymose or with pairs of flowers which are sometimes joined toward bases of ovaries. Flowers bisexual, regular or irregular; calyx 4- or 5-toothed or lobed, tube adnate to ovary; corolla epigynous, gamopetalous, lobes 5, spreading, sometimes 2 lipped, mostly imbricate in bud; stamens (4-)5, arising from corolla tube, alternate with lobes, anthers free, 2-loculed, opening by longitudinal slits, mostly introrse; carpels 3–5, united, ovary inferior, locules 1–5, style single, stigma capitate or lobed; placenta axile; ovules 1-many in each cell, pendulous. Fruit a berry or a achene-like drupe, rarely a capsule. Seeds 1-many, embryo small, straight; endosperm copious.
屬
About 18 genera and over 450 species, mostly in temperate regions of eastern North America and eastern Asia; four genera and 24 species in Taiwan.
參考文獻
Scabiosa 山蘿蔔屬
作者
LI, Hui-Lin
型態特徵
Herbs, annual or perennial, more or less woody at base. Leaves entire to dentate or dissected. Flowering heads flat, depressed-globose or ovoid-conical, many-flowered, long-pedunculate; involucral bracts herbaceous, in 1 or 2 series; receptacle bracts linear, small or absent; flowers blue, yellow, rose or white, marginal flowers usually larger and radiate; calyx bristly, of 5 setae, united at base, persistent, outer calyx or involucel adnate to achene, with free cup-like limb; corolla limb 4- or 5-lobed, subequal or oblique or 2-lobed; stamens 4, rarely 2; ovary inferior; style filiform. Achene crowned by persistent calyx.
