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.

屬

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

參考文獻

• WANG, Jenn-Che, CHEN, Yo-Jiun, and PENG, Ching-I, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 5: 153. 2000.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)
• Hong, D. Y., Acta phytotaxonomica sinica eng 12(4): 459-488. 1974.  (Acta Phytotax. Sin.)
• Hong, D. Y., Flora Reipublicae Popularis Sinicae 13(3): 69-133. 1997.  (Fl. Reip. Pop. Sin.)