Malvaceae
錦葵科
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.
