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Euphorbiaceae

大戟科

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作者

HSIEH, CHANG-FU, CHAW, SHU-MIAW and WANG, JENN-CHE

型態特徵

Herbs, shrubs, or trees, often with milky juice, sometimes fleshy and cactus-like. Leaves alternate or rarely opposite, simple or variously compound, mostly stipulate. Flowers monoecious or sometimes dioecious, mostly actinomorphic, variously disposed, with or without perianth, sometimes with a corolla; perianth valvate or imbricate; sepals and petals usually distinct; disc often present, annular or of separate glands. Staminate flowers variable, with stamens usually as many or twice as many as the petals or reduced to one, distinct or mona-delphous; anthers mostly 2-celled. Pistillate flowers with or without staminodes, often pedicellate; ovary superior, consisting of 3 or sometimes 2, or more than 3, united, 1-celled or rarely 2-celled carpels; styles 3, distinct or basally connate, each often 2-lobed; stigmas 3 or 6; placentation axile; ovules one or less commonly 2, pendulous. Fruit usually a schizocarpous capsule splitting often elastically into three 1-seeded cocci that dehisce ventrally, sometimes a drupe; seeds often with a conspicuous caruncle; endosperm mostly copious, fleshy; embryo straight.

A very large family containing about 300 genera and 8,000 species, mostly tropical and subtropical; 27 genera in Taiwan.

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Euphorbia 大戟屬

作者

HSIEH, CHANG-FU, CHAW, SHU-MIAW and WANG, JENN-CHE

型態特徵

Herbs or shrubs, milky. Leaves simple, alternate or opposite, sometimes caducous or minute; stipules small or absent. Flowers in a small, 4–5-lobed turbinate or campanulate involucre (cyathium); cyathial cup bearing 1 or 4–5 glands in the sinuses of its lobes, the glands often with a petal-like white or colored appendage. Male flowers of a pedicellate stamen; anther-cells 2, globose. Female flowers a solitary, pedicellate, 3-celled, 3-ovuled ovary; styles 3, free or connate, simple or bifid. Capsules of 3 bivalved cocci, separating from a columella and dehiscing.

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