特徵描述
作者
LIAO, JIH-CHING
型態特徵
Evergreen or deciduous trees or shrubs. Leaves usually alternate, rarely opposite or whorled, simple, entire, wavy, serrate, echinate or cleft, petiolate; stipules caducous, pinnately veined, glabrous or tomentose beneath. Plants are monoecious, flowers small, apetalous. Staminate flowers in spikes (catkins) or heads, with 4–7-lobed perianth; stamens 3–12 or more, anthers glabrous or hairy, 2-celled, longitudinally dehiscent; reduced ovary present or not. Pistillate flowers solitary or 3–4-clustered, usually in short spikes, sometimes at the base of staminate catkins, with 4–8-lobed perianth adnate to the ovary; ovary 3–7-celled, placentation axile, ovules 2 in each cell, but only 1 in the ripened ovary; styles 3–10, rarely 1–2, usually as many as cells; stigmas pointed or enlarged with flat or tuberculate portion. Nuts ovoid, oblong, depressed-globose or 3-angled, enclosed partly or wholly in a cupule (involucre), glabrous or hairy or winged; cupules regularly or irregularly dehiscent or not, covered with imbricate scales, scales free or united into 6–11 concentric rings, smooth, muricate, tomentose or long-spined, spines simple or branched, hard or soft, often tuberculate-scaled; seed usually solitary by abortion, without endosperm, cotyledons 2, fleshy.
屬
Widely distributed in tropical, subtropical and temperate regions of the northern hemisphere, one genus in the southern hemisphere; about 10 genera and 600 species worldwide, eight genera with 60 taxa (including 41 native species, six introduced species., nine native varieties, one introduced variety and three native forms) in Taiwan.
參考文獻
- LIAO, JIH-CHING, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 2: 51. 1996. (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)
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Castanea 栗屬
作者
LIAO, JIH-CHING
型態特徵
Deciduous trees or shrubs with furrowed bark; branchlets without terminal buds; winter buds with 3–4 scales. Leaves elliptic-oblong to broadly lanceolate, echinate-serrate, the veins numerous, pinnate. Flowers monoecious. Staminate flowers in slender, long spreading, erect catkins; perianth of 1 series, 6-cleft, tomentose or nearly glabrous outside; stamens 10–12, filaments very long, anthers 2-celled, very small, longitudinally dehiscent; reduced ovaries 3–5, long whitish-hairy. Pistillate flowers sessile, usually 3-clustered in a prickly involucre, borne at base of staminate catkins; perianth of 1 series, above the ovary, 6-cleft, tomentose outside; ovary 4–7-celled, glabrous outside, free from perianth, styles 4–10, needle-like, hairy at base, stigmas pointed. Nuts large, brown, rounded or plano-convex, marked at base with a conspicuous pale oval thickened scar, 1–7 enclosed in a prickly 2–4-valved involucre or bur, with hairy branched spines.
