作者

LU, FU-YUAN

型態特徵

Shrubs or small trees. Leaves alternate, large, 1–4-pinnate, rarely simple; leaflets ovate to oblong-lanceolate, tooth large. Flowers red, yellow or green; calyx 5- rarely 4-toothed; petals as many as the calyx-teeth, connate below and adhering to the staminal tube; filaments connate and included; ovary 3–6 celled, the cells with 1 ovule each. Fruit a 3–6-seeded succulent or rather dry subglobose berry.

屬

One genus in the tropics.

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作者

LU, FU- YUAN

型態特徵

Vines climbing by means of tendrils. Leaves alternate or the lower sometimes opposite, simple or absent. Flowers regular, perfect or unisexual, small, cymose, umbellately paniculately or racemosely arranged, leaf opposed; calyx small, entire or 4–5 toothed or lobed; petals 4–5, free or united, valvate, caducous; stamens 4 or 5, opposite to the petals, inserted at the base of disc or between its lobes, anthers free or connate, extrorse, 2-locular, opening lengthwise; disc intra-staminal, mostly very distinct, free or connate with stamens or ovary; ovary 2–6-celled, style short or none, stigma capitate or discoid; ovules 1–2 in each cell. Fruit baccate, 1–6-celled, watery; seeds with small embryo and copious endosperm.

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