Pentaphylacaceae
五列木科
特徵描述
[ Theaceae 茶科 ]
作者
HSIEH, CHANG-FU, LING, LAI-KUAN and YANG, KUOH-CHENG
型態特徵
Erect evergreen trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, simple, usually serrate, penninerved, estipulate. Flowers axillary, rarely terminal, solitary, occasionally fasciculate, actinomorphic, usually bisexual, often with 2 bracts below the calyx. Sepals mostly 5, imbricate, free or very shortly united, often unequal. Petals 5, rarely 4 to many, free or basally connate, imbricate. Stamens numerous, rarely as few as 5, free or connate below, usually adnate to base of petals. Ovary superior, rarely half-inferior, mostly 3–5-celled, ovules 2 to many in each cell, placentas axile; styles as many as carpels, free or partly connate. Fruit a berry or drupaceous, but often capsular; seeds 1 to many, winged or wingless; embryo large, straight or curved; endosperm present or absent, rarely abundant.
屬
Nearly 17 genera, with about 600 species; mostly distributed in eastern and southeastern Asia, with several genera in South America, Central America, Africa and southeastern United States; nine genera in Taiwan.
參考文獻
- HSIEH, CHANG-FU, LING, LAI-KUAN and YANG, KUOH-CHENG. 1996. Flora of Taiwan, second edition 2: 662. (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)
- Keng, H. 1950. Taiwania 1: 223-268.
Cleyera 紅淡比屬
作者
LING, LAI-KUAN and HSIEH, CHANG-FU
型態特徵
Small evergreen trees or shrubs. Flowers bisexual, axillary, solitary or in fascicles, the pedicels thickened at apex, bi-bracteolate; sepals 5, persistent, unequal, imbricate, ciliate; petals 5, imbricate, connate at base, reflexed at anthesis; stamens about 25, filaments distinct, anthers 2-loculed, hispid; ovary glabrous, 2–3-celled; ovules many; style 1, elongated, 2- or 3-fid at apex. Fruit baccate, spherical to oblong in shape, many-seeded.
About 24 species in India, Nepal, Myanmar, Vietnam, China, Korea and Japan, the rest in Mexico and the Antilles; one species and three varieties in Taiwan.
