特徵描述
作者
YING, SHAO-SHUN
型態特徵
Annual or perennial herbs, often suffrutescent; stems often swollen at nodes. Leaves simple, opposite, entire, stipulate or exstipulate. Flowers actinomorphic, bisexual or rarely unisexual, solitary or in cymes; sepals 4-5, free or united into a tube, imbricate, often with membranaceous margins, persistent; petals as many as the sepals, very rarely absent, often entire, toothed or lobed, often clawed, sometimes with appendages (ligules, coronal scales) on the inner side; stamens (0-)3-10, often alter-nating with the petals and usually of the same number, the filaments slender, sometimes cohering at base, the anthers 2-locular, dehiscent longitudinally; ovary superior, sessile or short stipitate, 1-locular or imperfectly 2- to 5-locular at base, with free central placentation, styles 2-5, free or partially connate; ovules mostly numerous. Fruit a capsule, opening by teeth or valves, as many as or twice the styles, rarely rupturing irregularly, baccate, or indehiscent; seeds with endosperm and a more or less curved peripheral or excentric embryo.
屬
Nearly 80 genera with about 2,000 species, distributed throughout the world, but most abundant in the temperate regions of the northern hemisphere. Ten genera in Taiwan.
參考文獻
Stellaria 繁縷屬
作者
YING, SHAO-SHUN
型態特徵
Annual or perennial herbs; stems erect or creeping, often tufted, usually glabrous, sometimes with branched hairs. Leaves opposite, linear, oblong to obovate, exstipulate, sessile or petiolate. Flowers several, terminal or rarely lateral, solitary or in cymes; sepals 5, free; petals 0-5, usually bifid almost to base, rarely emarginate; stamens 5-10, rarely 3; ovary 1-celled, the styles 2-3, rarely 5, alternate with the sepals; ovules many to few. Capsules ovoid to globose, opening by twice as many valves as styles, valves bilobed; seeds reniform-globose or flattened, smooth, rugose or verrucose, some-times winged on margin.
參考文獻
- YING, SHAO-SHUN, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 2: 342. 1996. (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)
- Mizushima, M, Journal of Japanese Botany 32: 245-253. 1959. (J. Jpn. Bot.)
種列表
- Stellaria alsine var. undulata 天蓬草
- Stellaria aquatica 鵝兒腸
- Stellaria borealis
- Stellaria bulbosa
- Stellaria calycantha
- Stellaria crassifolia 葉苞繁縷
- Stellaria diversiflora
- Stellaria florida var. angustifolia
- Stellaria francheti
- Stellaria frieseana
- Stellaria glauca
- Stellaria graminea 禾葉繁縷
- Stellaria hassiana
- Stellaria holostea 硬骨鵝腸菜
- Stellaria humifusa
- Stellaria humifusa var. oblongifolia
- Stellaria infracta 內彎繁縷
- Stellaria longifolia 長葉繁縷
- Stellaria media 繁縷
- Stellaria media var. micrantha 小花繁縷
- Stellaria media var. procera 賽繁縷
- Stellaria monosperma var. taiwaniana 瑞里繁縷
- Stellaria monosperma var. japonica 獨子繁縷
- Stellaria monosperma 獨子繁縷
- Stellaria nemorum 腺毛繁縷
- Stellaria pallida
- Stellaria paniculigera 大繁縷
- Stellaria pubera
- Stellaria radians 繸瓣繁縷
- Stellaria reticulivena 網脈繁縷
- Stellaria sp.
- Stellaria uliginosa 雀舌草
- Stellaria vestita 疏花繁縷
- Stellaria viscida
