Fabaceae
豆科
特徵描述
[ Leguminosae 豆科 ]
作者
HUANG, TSENG-CHIEN and OHASHI, HIROYOSHI
型態特徵
Herbs, shrubs, or trees. Leaves stipulate and usually alternate, pinnate or digitately compound, or simple, sometimes with the rachis ending in a tendril. Inflorescence variable, axillary, leaf-opposed or terminal, mostly pseudoracemose or panicled, bracts and bracteoles usually both present; flowers usually irregular, hermaphroditic, rarely regular or polygamous; sepals 4–5, connate or free, often unequal, sometimes combined into 2 lips; petals 5, rarely fewer by reduction, usually free and unequal; stamens normally 10, perigynous or hypogynous, rarely fewer or indefinite; filaments free or variously connate; anthers 2-celled, generally longitudinally dehiscent; ovary free; style simple, cylindrical, usually declinate, stigma capitate, terminal or oblique; ovules one or more on the ventral suture. Fruit usually a dry, dehiscent legume, typically dehiscent by one or both sutures into two valves, or indehiscent, sometimes jointed and separating into 1-seeded joints. Seeds usually exalbuminous; cotyledons foliaceous or amygdaloid, with a straight or inflexed acumbent radicle.
屬
Genera about 650, species over 18,000, cosmopolitan. About 60 genera and 170 species in Taiwan.
參考文獻
- Huang, S. F. & T. C. Huang. 1987. Taiwania 32(1): 11-118.
- Huang, T. C. et al. 1992. Taiwania 36(4): 318-395.
- Li, H. L. 1963. Livingston Publ. Comp. Pennsylvania 329-362.
- Liu, T. S. 1960. College of Agriculture, National Taiwan University, Taipei. (1): 483-551.
- Ohashi, H. et al. 1984. The science reports of the Tohoku Imperial University. Fourth Series, Biology (38): 277-334. (Sci. Rep. Tohoku Univ. 4. Biol.)
- Ohashi, H. et al. 1985. The science reports of the Tohoku Imperial University. Fourth Series, Biology (39): 53-66. (Sci. Rep. Tohoku Univ. 4. Biol.)
- Ohashi, H. et al. 1988. The science reports of the Tohoku Imperial University. Fourth Series, Biology (39): 191-248. (Sci. Rep. Tohoku Univ. 4. Biol.)
- Ohashi, H. et al. 1991. The science reports of the Tohoku Imperial University. Fourth Series, Biology (40): 1-37. (Sci. Rep. Tohoku Univ. 4. Biol.)
- HUANG, TSENG-CHIEN and OHASHI, HIROYOSHI. 1993. Flora of Taiwan, second edition 3: 160. (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)
Ormocarpum 濱槐屬
作者
HUANG, TSENG-CHIEN and OHASHI, HIROYOSHI
型態特徵
Shrubs. Leaves odd-pinnate; leaflets exstipellate; stipules lanceolate, striated, persistent. Flowers in lax racemes; calyx campanulate; 2 upper teeth deltoid, the lower lanceolate; standard broad, the keel much curved; stamens in 2 sets of 5 each, the anthers uniform. Pods linear, turgid, indehiscent, the joints oblong.
Species about 20, in Africa, Madagascar, tropical to subtropical Asia, northern Australia and Fiji; one in Taiwan.
