Neolitsea 新木薑子屬
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
Neolitsea 新木薑子屬
作者
LlAO, JIH CHING
型態特徵
Dioecious, small evergreen trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate or whorled, rarely opposite, with 3 main veins, usually glaucous beneath. Flowers mostly dimerous. Inflorescences umbels; involucral bracts large, persistent, decussate; pedicels none; staminate flowers with 6 stamens in 3 whorls, anthers 4-celled, introrse; pistillate staminodes in 3 whorls, inner whorl with glands; stigma in pistillate flowers conspicuous, capitate and flimsy, 2-lobed. Fruit ellipsoid or rarely globose; stalk often slightly thickened.
About 85 species, Asiatic mainland and Malaysia, nine species in Taiwan.
種列表
- Neolitsea aciculata 銳葉新木薑子
- Neolitsea aciculata var. variabillima 變葉新木薑子
- Neolitsea acuminatissima 高山新木薑子
- Neolitsea buisanensis 武威新木薑子
- Neolitsea buisanensis f. sutsuoensis 石厝新木薑子
- Neolitsea daibuensis 大武新木薑子
- Neolitsea hiiranensis 南仁新木薑子
- Neolitsea involucrata
- Neolitsea konishii 五掌楠
- Neolitsea latifolia
- Neolitsea levinei
- Neolitsea obtusifolia 鈍葉新木薑子
- Neolitsea parvigemma 小芽新木薑子
- Neolitsea sericea 白新木薑子
- Neolitsea sericea var. aurata 金新木薑子
- Neolitsea sp.
- Neolitsea villosa 蘭嶼新木薑子
- Neolitsea zeylanica