作者

HUANG, SHING-FAN and HUANG, TSENG-CHIENG

型態特徵

Erect or scandent herbs, shrubs or rarely trees. Leaves alternate; stipules absent. Flowers small, bisexual or rarely unisexual, when plants dioecious, in terminal, leaf-opposed, or axillary spikes or racemes; bracts and bracteoles present, small; perianth-segments 4–5, free or connate below, imbricate in bud; stamens 4–30, inserted on a flesh disk, filaments free or connate at base, anthers 2-locular, introrse, dorsifixed, longitudinally dehiscent; ovary superior, composed of 4–15 free or somewhat connate carpels; styles short or wanting; stigmas as many as carpels; ovules solitary in each carpel, basal, campylotropous. Fruit fleshy or drupe-like or samara-like. Seeds reniform; embryo annular, surrounding the copious mealy endosperm.

屬

About 17 genera with about 70 species in tropical, subtropical and temperate regions. One genus with two species in Taiwan.

引用文獻

• HUANG, SHING-FAN and HUANG, TSENG-CHIENG, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 2: 316. 1996.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit., 台灣植物誌第二版)
• Nowicke, J. W., Ann. Mo. Bot. Gard. 55: 294-363. 1968.