Cinnamomum 樟屬
作者
LlAO, JIH CHING
型態特徵
Evergreen rarely deciduous trees, shrubs or vines, often aromatic. Leaves alternate, rarely opposite, simple, usually coriaceous, sometimes membranaceous, punctate, exstipulate. Inflorescences various, such as umbels, racemes, panicles or cymose-panicles; flowers actinomorphic, bisexual or unisexual, yellow or greenish; calyx usually 6-parted, the segments in 2 whorls; petals 0; stamens in 3-4, rarely more, whorls of 3, some often reduced to staminodia, perigynous or epigynous, anthers 2- or 4-celled, rarely 3-celled, opening by uplifting valves; ovary usually superior and free, rarely inferior, 1-celled, 1-ovuled, style filiform. Fruits berries or drupes, indhiscent; seed 1.
屬
Widely distributed in the tropics, especially in S. E. Asia and Brazil, and a smaller number in temperate regions. About 45 genera and 2,250 species; about 20 genera, 423 species, 43 varieties and 5 forms in mainland China; 13 genera, 60 species, 12 varieties and 2 forms in Taiwan (including 9 species and 1 variety introduced); a few genera are cultivated as ornamentals and for food. The avocado, cinnamon and camphor are articles of commerce.
參考文獻
Cinnamomum 樟屬
作者
LlAO, JIH CHING
型態特徵
Evergreen trees or shrubs, often aromatic. Leaves opposite or alternate, coriaceous, usually with 3 main veins. Inflorescence panicles; flowers small, campanulate; receptacles cup-shaped; tepals 6, subequal, deciduous; fertile stamens 9 in 3 whorls, 1st and 2nd whorles of stamens eglandular, anthers introrse, 3rd whorl with glands in pairs, anthers extrorse, 4-celled; staminodes sagittate or cordiform; ovary sessile, 1-celled.
About 25 species, tropical and subtropical eastern Asia, Australia and the Pacific islands; 14 species in Taiwan.
種列表
- Cinnamomum austrosinense 牡丹葉桂皮
- Cinnamomum brevifolium
- Cinnamomum brevipedunculatum 小葉樟
- Cinnamomum burmannii 陰香
- Cinnamomum carolinense
- Cinnamomum cassia 肉桂
- Cinnamomum chingii 秦氏桂樹
- Cinnamomum iners 大葉桂
- Cinnamomum insulari-montanum 台灣肉桂
- Cinnamomum kotoense 蘭嶼肉桂
- Cinnamomum macrostemon 胡氏肉桂
- Cinnamomum nominale var. lanata
- Cinnamomum obtusifolium
- Cinnamomum osmophloeum 土肉桂
- Cinnamomum parthenoxylon 黃樟
- Cinnamomum pedunculatum 天竺桂
- Cinnamomum reticulatum 土樟
- Cinnamomum sessilifolium
- Cinnamomum sp.
- Cinnamomum subavenium 香桂
- Cinnamomum tamala 柴桂
- Cinnamomum tenuifolium f. nervosum 天竺桂
- Cinnamomum tsangii 辣汁樹
- Cinnamomum verum 錫蘭肉桂
