特徵描述
作者
HSIEH, Chang-Fu
型態特徵
Perennial herbs, with an erect herbaceous or tuberous rhizome. Leaves radical, often hairy. Flowers in terminal spikes or head-like racemes, actinomorphic, each in axil of a persistent bract; perianth segments free or nearly so; stamens 6; filaments short, free; anthers inserted in a basal cleft, 2-celled, cells dehiscing longitudinally; ovary hypogynous, 3-celled; stigmas 3, erect or decurrent; ovules many. Fruit a capsule or berry; seeds small, globose.
屬
Five genera in tropical to temperate America, Africa, Australia, Malesia, the Philippines and Japan. Two genera in Taiwan.
參考文獻
Curculigo 仙茅屬
作者
HSIEH, Chang-Fu
型態特徵
Herbs with a thick rhizome. Leaves radical, plicate, lanceolate to linear. Flowers in spikes or racemes, each subtended by a broad sheathing bract surpassing the ovary and fruit; perianth-segments equal, spreading, connate below into a tube; stamens 6, inserted at mouth of tube; anther cells more or less free at base; ovary 3-celled, often beaked at apex; styles short, columnar, stigma 3-lobed, oblong. Fruits succulent, sessile within a sheathing bract; seeds few, subglobose, testa striate, funicle usually dilated.
