特徵描述
作者
CHANG, CHING-EN Abutilon by YANG, ALECK TSUNG-YU
型態特徵
Herbs, soft-woody herbs, shrubs or trees, often clothed with stellate hairs. Leaves alternate, simple, entire or variously lobed, usually palmately veined, stipulate. Flowers usually bisexual, regular, often showy, solitary or in spikes, racemes or panicles. Calyx 5-lobed, often subtended by an epicalyx; petals 5, large, mostly twisted, stamens numerous, monadelphous, the staminal tube con¬spicuous, enclosing the gynoecium; anthers one-loculate, with thorny pollen grains. Ovary 5- to many-carpellate, the style-branches as many as or twice as many as carpels, the stigma often capitate to discoid or introrsely decurrent. Fruit commonly capsular or schizocarpous. Embryo curved, endospermous.
屬
Over 80 genera throughout the world, eight in Taiwan.
參考文獻
Abutilon 莔麻屬
作者
YANG, ALECK TSUNG-YU
型態特徵
Herbs, subshurbs or shurbs. Leaves alternate, palmi-nerved, cordate. Inflorescence solitary or paniculate. Flowers axillary or terminal, the epicalyx none; corolla rotate or campanulate, usually yellow; petals 5, connate below and adnate to the staminal tube, the staminal tube divided above into many filaments; style branches as many as the carpels. Carpels 5 to many (normal 8–20), separating from the axis after ripening, beaked or not; ovules 2–9 in each cell. Capsules globular, turbinate (top-shaped) or urceolate; seed kidney-shaped.
參考文獻
種列表
- Abutilon abutilon
- Abutilon asiaticum
- Abutilon avicennae
- Abutilon crispum 泡果莔
- Abutilon glaucum
- Abutilon grandifolium 大葉莔
- Abutilon hirtum 毛莔
- Abutilon hulseanum 疏花莔麻
- Abutilon indicum 冬葵子
- Abutilon indicum var. guineense 畿內冬葵子
- Abutilon lignosum
- Abutilon striatum 風鈴花
- Abutilon theophrasti 莔麻
- Abutilon triquetrum
