Compositae

菊科

APG 4

Asteraceae 菊科

特徵描述

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特徵描述

作者

PENG, Ching-I, CHUNG, Kuo-Fang & LI, Hui-Lin

型態特徵

Herbs or shrubs, rarely trees, sap sometimes milky. Leaves alternate or opposite, rarely whorled, simple or pinnately lobed or divided, estipulate. Flowers 1 to many, arranged in heads, heads solitary or variously arranged into synflorescences. Receptacle variously shaped, either glabrous, setose, or paleaceous, subtended by an involucre of one or more series of bracts (phyllaries). Florets bisexual or unisexual, occasionally neutral. Calyx represented by a pappus of diverse forms or seemingly absent. Corolla gamopetalous, tubular or discoid with 4 or 5 equal teeth or lobes or 2–5 lobes fused and elongate and forming a 2–5 toothed limb or ligule, or corolla bilabiate. Stamens 5, epipetalous, filaments distinct, anthers introrse, connate and forming a tube around style, apex usually appendaged, base often caudate or sagittate. Pistil 1, ovary inferior, 1-celled; style simple, slender, usually bifid; ovule solitary, anatropous. Fruit an achene, often crowned with a setose, paleaceous, or plumose pappus. Endosperm absent.

屬

One of the largest families of flowering plants comprising about 1,535 genera and about 23,000 species, cosmopolitan. About 84 genera and 221 species, plus 20 additional infraspecific taxa in Taiwan.

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Gnaphalium 鼠麴草屬

作者

PENG, Ching-I, CHUNG, Kuo-Fang & LI, Hui-Lin

型態特徵

Woolly pubescent herbs, erect or diffusely branched. Leaves alternate, entire or nearly so. Heads small, in terminal or axillary corymbs or spikes or in fascicles, heterogamous, disciform. Involucre ovoid or campanulate, bracts 3–5-seriate, scarious, outer gradually smaller, often ovate or oblong. Receptacle flat, convex or conic, pitted or not. Florets all fertile; outer florets pistillate, outnumbering central ones; central florets few, bisexual, perfect, corolla limb dilated, 5-toothed or 5-lobed. Anthers sagittate at base, cells with slender tails. Style branches truncate or capitate. Achenes oblong or obovoid terete, not ribbed. Pappus bristles 1-seriate, slender or sometimes thickened at tip, caducous, connate at base or not.