特徵描述
作者
HUANG, Tseng-Chieng, HSIEH, Tsung-Hsin and CHENG, Wu-Tsang
型態特徵
Herbs or subshrubs, annual or perennial, usually aromatic. Stems and branches usually quadrangular. Leaves opposite, rarely whorled or alternate, simple, trifoliolate, pinnatifid or pinnate, without stipules. Inflorescences in dichasial, scorpioid, corymbose scorpioid, verticillate, or corymbose or racemose cymes or thyrses, terminal or axillary. Flowers bisexual, irregular, rarely regular. Calyx persistent, campanulate, tubular or urceolate, 5-toothed or rarely 10-toothed, 2-lipped or regular; tube sometimes hairy annulate inside. Corolla sympetalous, tubular, often bilabiate, 4- or 5-lobed, upper lip entire, bifid or deeply lobed, lower lip 3-lobed, central lobe large; stamens 2 or 4, borne on the corolla-tube or throat, filaments flattened, glabrous or hairy, anthers 2- or 1-celled, parallel or divergent, dehiscing lengthwise; ovary superior, 2-carpellate, each carpel deeply 2-lobed; style solitary, mostly unequally bifid; stigma minute; ovules 4, erect. Fruits usually 4 nutlets, enclosed in persistent calyx.
屬
About 220 genera and 3,500 species distributed worldwide, mainly in the Mediterranean region and SW Asia; 36 genera and 73 species in Taiwan.
參考文獻
- HUANG, Tseng-Chieng, HSIEH, Tsung-Hsin and CHENG, Wu-Tsang, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 4: 432. 1998. (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)
- Wu, C. Y. and H. W. Li., Flora Reipublicae Popularis Sinicae 65(2): 124-248. 1977. (Fl. Reip. Pop. Sin.)
- Murata, J. and T. Yamazaki., Flora of Japan 3: 272-321. 1993. (Fl. Jap.)
- Hsieh, T. H. and T. C. Huang., Taiwania 43(1): 38-58. 1998.
- Huang, T. C., SMC Pulb. Inc. Taipei 365-378. 1997.
Coleus 鞘蕊屬
作者
HUANG, Tseng-Chieng, HSIEH, Tsung-Hsin and CHENG, Wu-Tsang
型態特徵
Herbs, covered with septate hairs. Leaves petiolate; blades ovate to broadly ovate, margins coarsely toothed or incised. Inflorescences of verticilate cymes, forming terminal racemes. Flowers pedicellate; calyx subglobose, very short, 4-lobed, upper lobe very broadly ovate, lateral lower lobes oblong; corolla funnelform; the lower lip cymbiform, the upper lip spreading, 3-lobed, recurved; stamens 4, anthers 2-celled, confluent, filaments connate into a sheath around the style, included in the hollow of the lower lip. Nutlets ellipsoid, smooth.
