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.
參考文獻
Sloanea 猴歡喜屬
作者
CHANG, CHING-EN
型態特徵
Trees or shrubs. Leaves simple, alternate, coriaceous or chartaceous. Flowers solitary or in cymes, axillary; sepals 4, imbricate; petals 4, incised; stamens numerous, free, springing from a thick disc; anthers linear, opening longitudinally; ovary 3–4 celled, the cells many-ovuled; style subulate. Capsule coriaceous or woody, prickly or setose, 3–4, or by abortion, 1-celled. Seeds solitary, few or many, pendulous, ovoid, the testa bony, shining, the endosperm fleshy.
