特徵描述
作者
YANG, Yuen-Po and LU, Sheng-You
型態特徵
Shrubs, trees or vines, rarely semi-herbaceous. Leaves simple, usually alternate, rarely opposite or subverticillate, estipulate, usually pubescent. Inflorescence axillary or terminal or at apex of lateral flowering branches, paniculate, racemose, subumbellate, or fasciculate. Flowers bisexual or unisexual, usually white or reddish, usually 4- or 5-merous; sepals usually connate at base, persistent, usually punctate; petals usually connate at base, usually punctate; stamens adnate to base or throat of corolla tube, as many as and opposite corolla lobes, anthers dorsifixed, dehiscent usually longitudinally; ovary superior, rarely semi-inferior, 1-locular; placenta basally attached, free-central; ovules many or few, imbedded; style single, stigma single, slightly capitate or sometimes lobed. Fruit a globose drupe or berry or rarely an elongated capsule; embryo covered by fleshy or horny endosperm.
屬
About 42 genera in tropical and subtropical regions of both hemispheres; four genera in Taiwan.
參考文獻
- Chen, J. and J. J. Pipoly III, Flora of China Family 15: 1-38. 1996. (Fl. China)
- Li, H. L, Flora of Taiwan 4: 47-67. 1978. (Fl. Taiwan)
- YANG, Yuen-Po and LU, Sheng-You, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 4: 40. 1998. (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)
Embelia 藤木槲屬
作者
YANG, Yuen-Po and LU, Sheng-You
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.
