作者

CHANG, CHING-EN

型態特徵

Dioeceous trees or shrubs. Leaves spiral, petiolate, simple, coriaceous, penninerved. Flowers axillary; staminate ones in globose heads, borne on short spikes; pistillate ones shortly pedicelled; sepals 5, distinct, imbricate; corolla tubular, the limb 5-parted; stamens 5, alternate with the petals, adherent to the tube of the corolla, the anthers ovoid-oblong, dorsifixed, 2-lobed, dehiscing longitudinally; disc fleshy, hypogynous, 5-lobed, the lobes opposite the petals; ovary conical, 1-celled, the style subulate; ovules 2, pendulous. Fruit oblong, with a crustaceous rind. Seeds pendulous; endosperm coriaceous, ruminate; embryo minute.

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