特徵描述
作者
LIU, HO-YIH
型態特徵
Annual or perennial herbs, sometimes shrubs or small trees. Stems often succulent or jointed, sometimes both. Leaves alternate or opposite, simple, usually exstipulate. Flowers small, actinomorphic, usually green, bisexual or unisexual, sometimes polygamous, usually wind pollinated, solitary or in small clusters in leaf axils or in axillary bracteate fascicles or panicles; perianth uniseriate, sometimes wanting; tepals mostly 5, free or connate at base or connate almost to apex; stamens usually as many as and opposite tepals, epitepalous; ovary superior or rarely half inferior, 2-5-carpellate, unilocular, with single ovule, styles 1-3, sometimes wanting, stigmas as many as carpels. Fruit a one-seeded utricle or rarely an achene; seeds with abundant perisperm, true endosperm absent.
屬
About 100 genera with about 1,400 species, mainly in the temperate and subtropical regions of both hemispheres; three genera with nine species in Taiwan.
參考文獻
- LIU, HO-YIH, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 2: 382. 1996. (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)
- Kung, H.-W. and Tsien, C.-P., Flora Reipublicae Popularis Sinicae 25(2): 1-194. 1979. (Fl. Reip. Pop. Sin.)
- Larsen, K., Flore du Cambodge, Laos, Viêtnam 24: 88-100. 1989.
Suaeda 鹼蓬屬
作者
LIU, HO-YIH
型態特徵
Annual or perennial herbs or shrubs. Leaves sessile, alternate, terete or semi-terete, fleshy, entire. Inflorescences axillary fascicles or flowers solitary. Flowers bisexual or pistillate, subtended by 3 bracteoles, tepals mostly 5, free or connate to middle, often keeled, stamens 5, ovary globose. stigmas 2-5. Fruit a utricle, enclosed by or sometimes adnate to periants; seeds 1, horizontal or vertical.
