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Guttiferae

金絲桃科

特徵描述
屬列表
Calophyllum 胡桐屬
Garcinia 福木屬
Hypericum 金絲桃屬
Triadenum 三腺金絲桃屬
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Garcinia 福木屬

作者

ROBSON, NORMAN K. B.

型態特徵

Trees or shrubs, mostly glabrous, with translucent glandular canals or brownish resin canals and yellow opaque exudate. Leaves opposite, entire, lateral nerves numerous, close and parallel or ± distant, usually branched, alternating with the glandular canals but crossed by resin canals. Inflorescence terminal or axillary, cymose. Flowers usually polygamous or plants dioecious. Sepals 4-5, imbricate or decussate. Petals 4 or 5, greenish-white to yellow, imbricate, equilateral, deciduous in female flowers. Stamens in 4 or 5 antepetalous fascicles or apparently not fascicled, many, filaments slender to stout, free or ± united or fascicles ± united to form a lobed or conical synandrium; anthers dorsifixed or ± immersed in a synandrium, dehiscing variously, without gland on connective; staminodes various or absent; sterile fascicles present and free or united, or absent. Ovary 2-5(-12)-locular, placentae axile, each placenta 1-ovulate, in male flowers rudimentary or absent; styles absent or very short; stigmas 2-5(-12)-lobed, peltate, or forming a uniform mass. Fruit a 1-4-seeded fleshy berry, with tough epidermis; seeds large.

Over 200 species, pantropical (when the American species of Rheedia are included); three species in Taiwan.