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Caprifoliaceae

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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.

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.

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Viburnum 莢迷屬

作者

YANG, Kuoh-Cheng and CHIU, Shau-Ting

型態特徵

Shrubs or small trees, deciduous or sometimes evergreen; branchlets pubescent or glabrous; winter buds scaly or naked. Leaves simple, petiole, entire, dentae or lobed, pinnate- or tri-nerved, pubescent or glabrous, stipulate or not. Inflorescence terminal, compound, corymbose- or paniculate cymose. Flowers small, regular, the marginal ones sometime sterile, with enlarged corolla; calyx 5-toothed; corolla campanulate, rotate to tubular; stamens 5; ovary 1-celled, ovule solitary; stigma slightly 3-lobed. Fruit a 1-celled, 1-seed drupe with a compressed stone, red , black, or rarely yellow when matured.

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