作者

HUANG, Tseng-Chieng

型態特徵

Perennial herbs or small shrubs. Leaves simple, alternate to spirally arranged, sometimes with tufts of hairs in leaf axils, estipulate. Flowers bisexual, usually irregular, solitary or in cymes. Calyx tubular, adnate to ovary, 5-lobed. Corolla gamopetalous, usually 5-lobed, bilabiate or 1-lipped, valvate or induplicate. Stamens 5, alternate with corolla lobes, anthers introrse, 2-celled, dehiscing longitudinally, free or connivent around style. Ovary superior, inferior or half-inferior, 2-carpellate, ovules 1 or 2 or many, anatropous, ascending, placentation basal or axile, style 1, filiform, stigma simple or 2 or 3-branched, surrounded by subtending pollen-collecting cup. Fruit a drupe. Seeds with a straight embryo and fleshy endosperm.

屬

Ten to 11 genera with about 400 species, in the tropics, mainly in Australia and New Guinea.

參考文獻

• HUANG, Tseng-Chieng, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 4: 803. 1998.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)
• Carolin, R. C., Fl. Australia 35: 84-145. 1992.
• Huang, T. C., Taiwania 41(3): 252-258. 1996.