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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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Hypericum 金絲桃屬

作者

ROBSON, NORMAN K. B.

型態特徵

Shrubs or perennial to annual herbs, glabrous (in Taiwan), with translucent ('pale') and often opaque, black or reddish ('dark') glands. Leaves opposite, entire. Inflorescence terminal and sometimes axillary, cymose. Flowers bisexual. Sepals 5, quincuncial. petals 5, yellow to orange, sometimes tinged or veined red, usually asymmetrical, persistent or deciduous. Stamens in 5 free antepetalous fascicles or united to form 4 (i. e., 2+1+1+1) or 3 (i. e., 2+2+1) fascicles with the compound fascicles antesepalous or apparently irregular and not fascicled, persistent or deciduous, each single fascicle with up to 70 stamens, with filaments slender, free almost to the base; anthers dorsifixed, dehiscing longitudinally, with gland on connective; staminodes and sterile fascicles absent. Ovary 3-5-locular with axile placenta or ± completely 1-locular with (2)3-5 parietal placentae, each placenta with many ovules; styles (2)3-5, free or partly to completely united, ± slender; stigmas small or ± capitate. Fruit a septicidal capsule, the valves often with resin-containing vittae or vescicles; seeds small, often carinate or ± winged, with testa variously sculptured, not arillate; embryo slender, straight, with distinct cotyledons.

About 420 species, cosmopolitan except for arctic or desert areas and most of the lowland tropics; 14 species with one variety in Taiwan.