Cryptocarya 厚殼桂屬
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.
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Cryptocarya 厚殼桂屬
作者
LlAO, JIH CHING
型態特徵
Trees or shrubs, evergreen. Leaves alternate or rarely subopposite, with parallel 3 main veins or pinnate veins. Flowers small, bisexual, in axillary and subterminal panicles; tepals 6, subequal; fertile stamens 9, 1st and 2nd whorles of stamens eglandular, anthers introrse, 2-celled, 3rd whorl with 2 glands, anthers 2-celled, extrorse, 4th whorl staminodia, cordate, short stipitate; ovary sessile, style short exserted, stigma obtuse or disc-shaped. Fruit oblong or compressed-globose, wholly enclosed in enlarged perianth.
About 230 species, tropical and subtropical; 3 species in Taiwan.
種列表
- Cryptocarya chinensis 厚殼桂
- Cryptocarya concinna 土楠
- Cryptocarya densiflora 叢花厚殼桂
- Cryptocarya elliptifolia 菲律賓厚殼桂
- Cryptocarya hainanensis 海南厚殼桂
- Cryptocarya impressinervia 鈍葉厚殼桂
- Cryptocarya lauriflora
- Cryptocarya maclurei 白背厚殼桂
- Cryptocarya metcalfiana 長序厚殼桂
- Cryptocarya obtusifolia
- Cryptocarya palawanensis
- Cryptocarya sp.
