特徵描述
作者
LIU, HO-YIH
型態特徵
Annual or perennial herbs or subshrubs. Leaves simple, entire, alternate or whorled, mostly exstipulate. Inflorescences mostly terminal cymes, rarely axillary cymes or solitary. Flowers actino-morphic, bisexual, or rarely unisexual, hypogynous, or rarely perigynous; sepals usually 5, free or rarely connate at base; petals usually 5 and free, or somtimes connate below into a tube; stamens (2-)4-10(-many), usually alternisepalous, or alterni- and episepalous if more than 5, filaments usually connate at base; anthers introrse, tetrasporangiate, dehiscing by longitudinal slits; ovary syncarpous, (1-)2-5(-10)-carpellate, placentation axile. Fruit usually a loculicidally dehiscent capsule; seeds with starchy perisperm, endosperm absent or scanty.
屬
About 13 genera, with about 120 species, mainly in the tropics and subtropics of both hemispheres; two genera and four species in Taiwan.
參考文獻
- LIU, HO-YIH, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 2: 325. 1996. (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)
- Pitot, A., Webbia 19: 751-808. 1965.
Glinus 假繁縷屬
作者
LIU, HO-YIH
型態特徵
Annual or perennial multi-stemmed herbs, often with stout tap root, usually simply or stellately pubescent. Leaves narrowly elliptic to ovate, alternate or in false whorls. Inflorescences axillary clusters or fascicles. Sepals 5, often yellow within, adaxially; petals 0-8(-20), usually split at apex; stamens 3-15; carpels 3-5, styles almost absent. Capsule 3- or 5-, rarely 4-valved; seeds numerous, each with a short funiculus enclosed within a bladder-like caruncle, and with a long filiform appendage coiled round the seed.
