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
Malvastrum 賽葵屬
作者
CHANG, CHING-EN Abutilon by YANG, ALECK TSUNG-YU
型態特徵
Herbs or undershrubs. Leaves toothed. Flowers yellow, axillary, solitary or in axillary clusters, or in terminal and axillary spikes. Epicalyx-segments 3, small; calyx cup-shaped, 5-parted; corolla longer than the sepals; anthers numerous, borne at the summit of the staminal tube; ovary 5-celled or more; style-branches as many as the carpels. Ripe carpels separating from the short torus, indehiscent, 1-seeded, beaked or not.
