特徵描述
作者
CHANG, CHING-EN
型態特徵
Trees and shrubs, often climbing. Leaves usually alternate, simple, estipulate. Flowers bisexual, rarely unisexual by abortion, actinomorphic, usually in panicles. Calyx 4–5-lobed, small. Petals 4–5, usually distinct or sometimes connate, valvate. Stamens as many as petals and alternate with them, distinct, the anthers 2-celled, usually introrse, sometimes 4-lobed, dehiscing longitudinally. Pistil 1, the ovary superior, 1-loculed, mostly 3- or 5-carpellate, the placentation apical; ovules 2, usually pendulous from locule apex, anatropous; style 1, the stigmas usually 3. Fruit usually a drupe, rarely a samara. Seed with straight or curved embryo; endosperm present.
屬
About 56 genera, of pantropical distribution. Three in Taiwan.
參考文獻
Nothapodytes 鷹紫花樹屬
作者
CHANG, CHING-EN
型態特徵
Trees and shrubs. Leaves spiral or partly subopposite, petiolate, simple, penni¬nerved. Flowers bisexual, in terminal corymbose or cymose inflorescence; calyx cupular, slightly 5-toothed; petals 5, valvate, usually villose within, slightly coherent at base; stamens 5, hypogynous, usually free, alternate with the petals, the anther-sacs ovate, dorsifixed, dehiscing longitudinally, the filaments filiform, with a basal abaxial reflexed pulviniform appendage coherent to the filament; disc hypogynous, cup-shaped; ovary superior, hirsute, 1-celled; style short, the stigma capitate; ovules 2, pendulous. Fruit drupaceous, with a thin rugose endocarp. Seed single; endosperm fleshy.
