Ericaceae
杜鵑花科
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.
