作者

HUANG, TSENG-CHIENG and LIU, TANG-SHUI

型態特徵

Herbs with acid juice. Leaves simple, alternate or even pinnate; leaflets obcordate, obliquely oblong or depressed-obtriangular, stipulate. Flowers bisexual, solitary or in umbellate cymes, actinomorphic or cleistogamous; sepals 5; petals 5, white, whitish-yellow or rose-purple, contorted in bud; stamens 10–15; ovary 5-locular, 5-lobed; styles free or connate; ovules one to several in each locule. Capsules cylindric-globose, loculicidally dehiscent; seeds sometimes arillate; embryo erect, in a fleshy endosperm.

屬

About five genera with more than 300 species, chiefly in the tropics and subtropics; two genera and four species in Taiwan.

參考文獻

• HUANG, TSENG-CHIENG and LIU, TANG-SHUI, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 3: 397. 1993.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)
• Masamune, G., Transactions of the Natural History Society of Formosa 28: 431-433. 1938.  (Trans. Nat. Hist. Soc. Formos.)
• Veldkamp, J. F., Fl. Malesiana ser. I 71: 15-178. 1971.