Malpighiaceae
黃褥花科
特徵描述
作者
CHEN, CHING-HSIA
型態特徵
Trees or shrubs, often woody climbing, with often appressed medifixed hairs. Leaves simple, mostly opposite, quite entire; glands often present either on petiole or on the lower surface of the leaves; stipules small or absent. Inflorescence axillary or terminal; pedicels articulate, usually 2-bracteolate. Flower hermaphroditic, rarely polygamous, regular or irregular; calyx usually 5-partite, the segments imbricate or very rarely valvate, one or more larger glandular outside, rarely eglandular; petals 5, clawed or not, often fimbriate, imbricate, disc obscure, small; stamens 10, hypogynous or subperigynous, equal or one much more larger than the others, the filaments free or connate at the base, the anthers 2-lobed, opening lengthwise or by a pore-like slit; ovary 3-celled, rarely 2 or 4, the styles 1–3, straight or circinate, the stigmas capitate or punctiform or lateral; ovules solitary in each cell, the micropyle superior, the raphe ventral. Fruiting carpels often winged samaras, or carpels connate into a fleshy or woody drupe. Seed exalbuminous; embryo straight or curved, the radicle superior.
屬
A family of about 65 genera and 1280 species, tropical America, Africa and Asia; four genera in Taiwan. One cultivated.
參考文獻
Hiptage 猿尾藤屬
作者
CHEN, CHING-HSIA
型態特徵
Woody vines or stout shrubs. Leaves opposite, entire, leathery, elliptic to oblong, base acute, generally with 2 glands beneath, margin often with small scattered glands beneath; stipules minute, gland-like. Inflorescence terminal or axillary, raceme-like. Flower bisexual, white, zygomorphic; calyx 5, deeply incised, with a dark gland at the base; petals 5, more or less clawed; stamens 10, unequal, the anterior longest and the posterior shortest; ovary 3-lobed, style 1, stigma acute. Fruit a samara with 3 laterally coriaceous wings, the middle longest.
About 30 species in southern Asia from southern China, Malaysia to Fiji. One species in Taiwan, widespread below 1,500 m.
