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
Hypoxis 小仙茅屬
作者
HSIEH, Chang-Fu
型態特徵
Herbs with bulbous or tuberous rhizomes. Leaves radical, linear or slightly broader, usually hairy. Scape leafless or with a single sheathing leaf. Flowers solitary or several in umbels or racemes; bracts small, linear, sometimes absent; perianth persistent, divided into 6 nearly equal spreading segments; stamens 6, inserted at base of segments; anthers oblong or linear; ovary not beaked, 3-celled; ovules many. Capsule ellipsoid; seeds numerous, globose, with crustaceous tubercular testa.
