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Commelinaceae

鴨跖草科

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作者

WANG, Jenn-Che, CHEN, Yo-Jiun, and PENG, Ching-I

型態特徵

Annual or perennial herbs, sometimes with stolons. Stems erect, ascending or decumbent. Leaves linear, lanceolate or ovate; sheath cylindrical. Prophyll sheathing, membranaceous, at base of branches. Inflorescence terminal, rarely axillary, a cincinnus, drepanium, thyrse or flower solitary. Flowers bisexual, or staminate, actinomorphic or zygomorphic, trimerous; sepals 3, green, persistent; petals 3, white, blue or purple, free or fused basally; stamens 6, all alike or heteromorphic with 2-3 fertile stamens and 3-4 staminodes, filaments glabrous or barbate; ovary superior, locules 1 or 2, style glabrous or barbate. Fruit a capsule, dehiscent, rarely indehiscent. Seeds uniseriate, rarely biseriate, embryostega lateral, semilateral, dorsal or apical, hilum punctiform or linear.

About 40 genera with ca. 650 species, in warm regions. Eight genera with 19 species in Taiwan.

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Cyanotis 鴨舌疝屬

作者

WANG, Jenn-Che, CHEN, Yo-Jiun, and PENG, Ching-I

型態特徵

Annual or prennial herbs, green or purple. Stems erect, ascending, creeping or decumbent. Leaves succulent, linear or lorate, apex acuminate. Cincinni terminal and in axils of leaves or foliaceous bracts. Flower bisexual, actinomorphic; sepals 3, base fused, greenish, persistent, lanceolate; petals 3, connate below into a tube, pink purple; stamens 6, equal, anthers trapezoidal; filaments inflated apically, barbate, hairs moniloform, purple; ovary ellipsoid, 3-angled; style inflated apically, ventricose. Capsules trilocular, 3-valved, ellipsoid, locules 2-seeded. Seeds uniseriate, deltoid-trapezoid, embryostega apical, hilum punctiform.

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