特徵描述
作者
LI, Hui-Lin, LU, Sheng-You, YANG, Yuen-Po and TSENG, Yen-Hsueh
型態特徵
Shrubs, occasionally subshrubs or trees, or rarely vines. Leaves opposite or alternate, simple, estipulate. Flowers bisexual, actinomorphic or slightly zygomorphic, solitary or in racemes or panicles. Perianth biseriate, parts of each series usually more or less connate. Calyx 4–7-lobed, usually persistent. Corolla 4–7-segmented, often funnelform-campanulate, convolute or imbricate. Stamens as many or twice as many as petals, free or connate at base; anthers 2-celled, each theca dehiscing introrsely by a terminal pore or longitudinally. Ovary superior or inferior, 4–10- or typically 5-celled; ovules usually numerous per locule; style single, conical to filiform, rarely as many as carpels, stigma simple. Fruit a capsule or berry; seeds usually small, embryo straight, endosperm fleshy.
屬
About 70 genera, widely distributed on acid soils throughout temperate regions; six genera in Taiwan.
參考文獻
Enkianthus 吊鐘花屬
作者
LI, Hui-Lin, LU, Sheng-You, YANG, Yuen-Po and TSENG, Yen-Hsueh
型態特徵
Deciduous or rarely evergreen shrubs; branches often whorled. Leaves alternate, mostly crowded at end of branches, usually serrulate, petiolate. Flowers in terminal umbels or racemes, usually nodding; calyx 5-parted; corolla campanulate or urceolate, lobes 5; stamens 10, included, anthers 2-awned at apex, opening by short slits; ovary globose, style filiform, longer than stamens, stigma capitate. Capsules globose, 5-valved; seeds 1-few per cell, angled or winged.
