特徵描述
屬列表
Erodium 牻牛兒苗屬
Geranium 老鸛草屬
標本列表
Erodium 牻牛兒苗屬
型態特徵
Mostly herbs, rarely small trees. Leaves alternate, rarely opposite, simple or compound; stipules often paired. Flowers one to many, bisexual, actimorphic; calyx persistent, 4–5 ; petals 4–5; stamens 10 or more, the filaments more or less connate at base, the anthers versatile; carpels 5, with a long beak at the apex; ovules 1–2 in each locule, pendulous. Fruit usually a capsule, 3–5 lobed, each lobe dehiscing suddenly and spirally coiled.
A family of 11 genera and about 650 species, widely distributed over the temperate and subtropical regions. One genus in Taiwan.
