特徵描述
屬列表
Ardisia 紫金牛屬
Embelia 藤木槲屬
Maesa 山桂花屬
Myrsine 竹杞屬
標本列表
Embelia 藤木槲屬
型態特徵
Shrubs, usually dioecious, usually scandent, rarely erect. Leaves alternate, distichous or subverticillate. Inflorescences racemose, paniculate, or subumbellate, bracteate. Flowers unisexual or bisexual; sepals free or shortly united at base; petals free or united at base; stamens usually adnate to base of petals, rarely free, filaments free, elongate, anthers ovoid or oblong, dehiscent longitudinally; ovary globose or ovoid, much reduced in staminate Flowers, style elongate, stigma discoid or capitate; ovules few, uniseriate. Fruit a drupe, globose, 1-seeded; seed with ruminate endosperm.
About 140 species in the Pacific Islands, the East Indies, Australia, SE Asia and Africa, three species in Taiwan.
