Myristicaceae
肉荳蔻科
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特徵描述
作者
LIAO, JIH-CHING
型態特徵
Dioecious evergreen trees or shrubs; branches often stellate-tomentose. Leaves alternate, simple, entire, estipulate, often pellucid-punctate. Inflorescences axillary fascicles or umbels; flowers small, regular; bracteoles persistent or caducous; staminate perianth 3-lobed, lobes valvate in bud; corolla none; stamens 2-30, monadelphous, filaments connate into a central column, anthers 2-celled, extrorse. Pistillate periath 3-lobed; ovary superior, 1-celled, style short or none, stigma capitate, discoid or lobed; ovule 1, basal, erect, anatropous. Fruit oblong or ovoid; pericarp thick, fleshy, dehiscing into 2, rarely 4 valves; seed 1, with a fleshy laciniate aril.
屬
About 11 genera and 250 species, widely distributed in the tropics. One genus with 2 species in Taiwan.
