特徵描述
作者
LI, HUI-LIN and LO, HANN-CHUNG
型態特徵
Trees or shrubs, rarely scandent, mostly inermous, without milky latex. Leaves spirally arranged or distichous, rarely opposite, simple, petioled; blade often with base asymmetric; stipules usually small, rarely large, or absent. Flowers terminal, axillary or on old wood, solitary or in clusters or racemes, subtended by bracts, actinomorphic, bi- or unisexual and dioecious; sepals 3–6, rarely more, free or connate, imbricate or valvate, mostly persistent; petals 3–8, rarely more, or absent, imbricate or valvate; receptacle might deepen in the center, mostly with appendages as disk lobes, fine threads, petal-scales or staminodes; disk present or not, entire, lobed or dissolved into glands; stamens 5 to numerous, hypogynous, mostly free, or monadelphous; anther cells 2, longitudinally dehiscent; ovary mostly superior, rarely semi-inferior or inferior, 1-celled (except Flacourtia) with 2–10 parietal placentas, sometimes incompletely 2–10 celled by deeply penetrating placentas, each with 2 to numerous ovules; styles 1–10, free or connate; stigma sessile. Fleshy or dry berry, drup or loculicidally dehiscent capsule. Seeds 1 to many, sometimes arillate; endosperm copious; embryo axile; cotyledons mostly broad, foliaceous.
屬
Mostly tropics, 84 genera, ca 1,300 species. 6 genera with 6 species in Taiwan.
參考文獻
Scolopia 魯花樹屬
作者
LI, HUI-LIN and LO, HANN-CHUNG
型態特徵
Small trees or erect shrubs, often spiny. Leaves coriaceous, pinnately nerved, glabrous, shallowly crenate-serrate or entire, mostly with 2 marginal glands near base; stipules in leaf axils, minute, early caducous. Flowers in axils of leaves or fallen leaves, mostly in simple racemes, sometimes in fascicles, or solitary, bisexual; sepals 3–6, expanded gradually, before anthesis, persistent; petals as many as sepals, narrow, persistent; petals as many as sepals, narrowly imbricate or subvalvate, oval; stamens numerous, inserted on densely tomentose receptacle, downwards incurved in bud, longer than corolla; anthers dorsifixed; connective produced beyond the anther cells; disk-glands either 2 before each petal, orange, or absent; ovary with placentas 2–4, deeply penetrating; ovules few or numerous; style 1, rather long; stigma lobed. Berry globose-ellipsoid, tipped by persistent style (base), 1-numerous-seeded.
