Elaeocarpaceae
杜英科
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特徵描述
作者
CHANG, CHING-EN
型態特徵
Trees or shrubs. Leaves simple, alternate, coriaceous or chartaceous, estipulate. Flowers hermaphroditic, actinomorphic, in racemes, rarely panicles, usually axillary; sepals 4–5, valvate, distinct or connate; petals 4–5, distinct, often fimbriate, usually valvate; stamens many, distinct, arising from a disc, the anthers usually 2-celled, dehising by a slit lengthwise or a terminal pore; disc intrastaminal, sometimes developed into an androphore; ovary superior, 2-many-celled, the placentation axile; ovules 2 to many in each cell, pendulous, anatropous. Fruit a capsule or a drupe. Seeds with a straight embryo and copious endosperm.
屬
About seven genera and over 100 species, of wide distribution in the tropics and warm regions; two genera and six species in Taiwan.