作者

LI, HUI-LIN and YANG, KUOH-CHENG

型態特徵

Glabrous branching shrubs, evergreen. Leaves opposite, petioled, ovate or lanceolate, obtusely serrate, leathery, shining, turning black in drying. Flowers small, dioecious, pseudo-axillary panicles; pedicels jointed and bracteolate. Staminate flowers: calyx small, 4-toothed; petals ovate or lanceolate, valvate; stamens 4; disc quadrangular, fleshy; no rudiment of an ovary. Pistillate flowers: calyx ovoid, the limb 4-toothed; petals as in the staminate; no rudiments of stamens; ovary 1¬celled; disc fleshy; style short, thick, the stigma capitate; ovule solitary, pendulous. Berry ellipsoid, crowned with the calyx teeth and style; seed oblong; endosperm copious, embryo minute.

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