作者

YING, Shao-Shun

型態特徵

Perennial herbs, with subterranean rhizomes, tubers or bulbs; with or without arial stems; stems often herbaceous. Leaves often crowded at base of stem, or radical, often conspicuously distichous or equitant, lanceolate to linear, flattened, sheathing at base. Flowers bisexual, actinomorphic, with a straight perianth tube, or tube curved with an oblong limb, or completely zygomorphic, usually showy mottled or spotted; sheathing bracts sometimes present, either solitary on stem or combined into a simple or branched inflorescence; tepals petaloid, withering, sometimes persistent; segments or lobes 6, biseriate, subequal and similar, or the two series different in size, shape and texture; when limb oblique then the dorsal lobe often larger and sometimes hood-like; stamens 3, filaments free or connate into a tube or ring; anthers 2-locular, basifixed or affixed in a more or less deep basal incision; ovary inferior, very rarely superior, 3-locular and placentas axile or l-locular and 3 parietal placentas; style slender, 3-lobed, branches subulate, entire or deeply lobed, sometimes winged and petaloid, stigmatose at apex or within; ovules numerous, rarely few or 1, anatropous. Fruit a capsule, loculicid or dehiscent by apical pores; seeds numerous, globose, angular or flat; albumen copious, enclosing the small embryo.

屬

About 60 genera with 800 or more species, widely distributed worldwide, especially abundant in South Africa. Two native and one naturalized genus in Taiwan.

引用文獻

• YING, Shao-Shun, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 5: 136. 2000.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit., 台灣植物誌第二版)