作者

LI, Hui-Lin and PENG, Ching-I

型態特徵

Trees, shrubs or herbs, sometimes scandent. Leaves opposite, simple, with or without stipules. Inflorescences cymose, terminal or axillary, simple or compound, cymes sometimes reduced to solitary flowers. Flowers regular, calyx 4 or 5-toothed; corolla 4 or 5-lobed, with short to long tube; stamens 4 or 5, inserted on corolla tube and alternating with lobes, anthers 2-celled; ovary free, 2-celled; style simple, stigma capitate or bifid; ovules one or more in each cell, placentation axile. Fruit a septicidal capsule or indehiscent berry, 1- to many-seeded; seeds with abundant endosperm.

屬

A tropical and subtropical family with about 29 genera and nearly 500 species. Six genera in Taiwan.

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作者

LI, Hui-Lin

型態特徵

Shrubs or rarely trees. Leaves alternate or rarely opposite, simple, estipulate, usually with resinous glands. Flowers axillary, solitary or fascicled, bisexual, regular or more usually irregular. Calyx 5-lobed or 5-fid, imbricate or not. Corolla gamopetalous, usually 5-lobed, lobes imbricate. Stamens usually 4, rarely 5, inserted on corolla tube and alternate with lobes, anthers 2-celled, cells often divergent and confluent at apex, dehiscing longitudinally. Ovary superior, 2-celled, cells 2-more-ovuled; style simple, terminal; ovules pendulous. Fruit a drupe. Seeds with very scanty or no endosperm; embryo straight or slightly curved.

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作者

LIU, Ho-Yih

型態特徵

Herbs or shrubs, rarely trees or vines; some species hemiparasitic or parasitic. Leaves opposite or alternate, rarely whorled; exstipulate. Flowers in racemes, spikes, or thyrsoid panicles or solitary; perfect, usually irregular. Calyx lobes 5 or 4, rarely 1 or 2 by fusion. Corolla sympetalous, 4 or 5-lobed, often 2-lipped. Stamens epipetalous, usually 4 and didynamous, or 4 fertile and 1 sterile, rarely 2 or 5; anthers 1 or 2-celled, cells distinct or more or less confluent. Disc annular or cup-shaped. Ovary superior, 2-celled; style simple or sometimes forked; stigma capitate, dilated, or 2-lobed. Fruit a capsule, rarely baccate. Seeds small, hilum lateral or ventral.

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