特徵描述
屬列表
Chionanthus 流蘇樹屬
Fraxinus 梣屬
Jasminum 素英屬
Ligustrum 女貞屬
Osmanthus 木犀屬
標本列表
Jasminum 素英屬
型態特徵
Deciduous or evergreen shrubs, climbing (in Taiwan), branchlets terete or quadrangular. Leaves opposite or sometimes alternate, simple or pinnate, leaflets tri-nerved or pinnate-nerved; petioles articulate. Inflorescence dichasial or cymose or thyrsoid or rarely solitary. Flowers bisexual, actinomorphic; calyx 4–11-lobed; corolla 4–11-lobed, tube long, lobes imbricate in bud; stamens 2, inserted on upper part of corolla tube, filaments short; ovary 2-celled, each cell usually with 2 ovules, style simple, stigmas 2. Fruit a berry, usually 2-lobed, 2–4-seeded; seeds with little or without endosperm.
A genus with about 300 species in the tropical, subtropical and temperate regions of the northern hemisphere. Four species recognized in Taiwan.
參考文獻
- YANG, Yuen-Po and LU, Sheng-You, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 4: 134. 1998. (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)
- Miao, B. M., Bulletin of Botanical Research 4(1): 88-111. 1984. (Bull. Bot. Res.)
