特徵描述
作者
LI, Zhen-Yu and KAO, Muh-Tsuen
型態特徵
Herbs, shrubs, rarely trees. Leaves opposite, alternate, verticillate or in rosettes, exstipulate. Inflorescences usually cymes, rarely racemes, axillary or pseudoterminal. Flowers perfect, zygomorphic, seldom actinomorphic. Calyx (4-)5-divided. Corolla gamopetalous, usually 2-lipped. Stamens 2–5; anthers free or coherent, thecae 2, parallel, divergent or divaricate; staminodes 1–3 or absent. Disc ringlike to cup-shaped, rarely absent. Ovary superior (all native taxa in Taiwan) to inferior, 1-loculed, placentation parietal, rarely 2-loculed and placentation axile; ovules numerous, anatropous; style 1, terminal; stigmas 1 or 2. Fruit usually a capsule, loculicidally, septicidally, or circumscissilely dehiscent, rarely a berry. Seeds numerous, fusiform to ellipsoid or ovoid, minute, sometimes with appendages at one or both ends, with or without endosperm, embryo straight.
屬
About 142 genera and 3000 species, distributed in tropical and southern Africa, Central and South America, east and south Asia, southern Europe and Oceania; twelve genera with thirteen species in Taiwan
參考文獻
- LI, Zhen-Yu and KAO, Muh-Tsuen, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 4: 688. 1998. (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)
- Kao, M. T. & DeVol, C. E., Taiwania 17: 142-169. 1972.
- Wang, W. T., Pan, K. Y. & Li, Z. Y., Flora Reipublicae Popularis Sinicae 69: 125-581. 1990. (Fl. Reip. Pop. Sin.)
- Wang, W. T., Pan, K.Y.& Li, Z. Y., Edinburgh Journal of Botany 49: 5-74. 1992. (Edinburgh J. Bot.)
Whytockia 玉玲花屬
作者
LI, Zhen-Yu and KAO, Muh-Tsuen
型態特徵
Herbs, terrestrial, perennial, caulescent. Stems erect or ascending. Leaves opposite, very unequal in pairs. Normal leaves short-petiolate or sessile, unequally-sided, base strongly oblique; reduced leaves sessile. Cymes axillary or pseudoterminal, few- to many-flowered, pedunculate, without bracts. Flowers pedicellate. Calyx 5-merous, divided to base or 5-lobed, segments equal, with many longitudinal secretory channels. Corolla white, reddish or purple, tube subtubular to funelform, limb shorter than tube, 2-lipped, upper lip 2-lobed, lower lip 3-lobed. Disc ring-like. Stamens 4, didynamous, included, adnate near corolla base; filaments linear; anthers dorsifixed, coherent, thecae divergent, confluent at apex, dehiscing longitudinally; staminode 1. Gynoecium included, glabrous; ovary subglobose, 2-loculed, with an axile placenta; stigmas 2, equal. Capsule subglobose, globose or depressed-globose, dehiscent by 2 valves or irregularly dehiscent. Seeds ellipsoid, without appendages.
