作者

YANG, YUEN-PO and LU, SHENG-YOU

型態特徵

Trees, shrubs, or woody vines. Leaves alternate, petiolate, simple or trifolioate, estipulate. Flowers epigynous, somewhat regular, bisexual or unisexual, in thyrsoid or dischasial inflorescences; tepals in 2 series of 3-8, valvate; stamens in 1 series of 3-5, filaments with 2 glands or staminodes at base, anthers introrse, 2-locular, dehiscing by valves; ovary inferior, with 1 carpel; ovule solitary, pendulous. Fruit 1-seeded, often with lateral or apical wings; seeds without endosperm.

屬

Genera 5, species about 60, in the tropics.

引用文獻

• YANG, YUEN-PO and LU, SHENG-YOU, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 2: 500. 1996.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit., 台灣植物誌第二版)