特徵描述
作者
LI, Hui-Lin, LU, Sheng-You and YANG, Yuen-Po
型態特徵
Usually dioecious trees or shrubs without latex. Leaves alternate, rarely subopposite, estipulate, usually thick and coriaceous, entire. Flowers regular, usually dioecious, axillary, subsessile or in short cymes, pedicels jointed under the flower; calyx gamosepalous, 3-5-lobed often hairy outside; stamens usually as many as or 2–3 times as many as corolla lobes, hypogynous, filaments free or variously united, anthers dehiscent longitudinally; ovary 2–8- or more-celled, imperfectly septate; styles 2–8; ovules 1 or 2 in each cell, pendulous, anatropous. Fruit mostly fleshy, few- to several-seeded; seeds usually oblong, compressed or longitudinally 2–3-furrowed; endosperm abundant; uniform or ruminate.
屬
A family of two genera, widely distributed in the tropics.
