Guttiferae

金絲桃科

APG 4

Clusiaceae 藤黃科

特徵描述

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特徵描述

作者

ROBSON, NORMAN K. B.

型態特徵

Trees, shrubs or herbs with various glandular secretions. Leaves simple, entire, opposite and exstipulate. Inflorescences various. Flowers bisexual or unisexual, regular. Sepals (2-)4-5(-6), imbricate or decussate, the inner ones sometimes petaloid. Petals 4-5(-10), free, imbricate or contorted in bud. Stamens indefinite, free or in 4-5(-10) free or variously united fascicles, often with the antisepalous fascicles sterile or absent. Ovary superior, 1-12-locular, with axile or parietal or basal placentation; ovules 1 to many; styles 1-5 or absent, the stigmas 1-12. Fruit a capsule, berry or drupe. Seeds 1 to many, without endosperm; embryo various; aril present or not.

屬

A family of 40 genera and about 900 species, chiefly tropical and subtropical but with two genera (Hypericum and Triadenum) in temperate regions; four genera and 20 species in Taiwan.

參考文獻

ROBSON, NORMAN K. B., Flora of Taiwan, second edition 2: 694. 1996. (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)
Li, X. W., Flora Reipublicae Popularis Sinicae 50(2): 1-109. 1990. (Fl. Reip. Pop. Sin.)

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.