Piperaceae

胡椒科

APG 4

Piperaceae 胡椒科

特徵描述

屬列表

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特徵描述

作者

LIN, TZER-TONG and LU, SHENG-YOU

型態特徵

Herbs, erect or scandent shrubs or climbers. Stems with scattered vascular bundles, succulent or woody, aromatic. Leaves alternate, opposite or verticillate, petiolate, with or without stipules, entire, palmately nerved or penninerved, often pellucid-dotted. Inflorescences spicate, pedunculate, loosely or densely flowered, leaf-opposed, axillary or terminal. Flowers minute, unisexual or bisexual, without perianth, each subtended by a peltate bract; stamens usually 2–6, hypogynous, filaments free; ovary superior, 1-loculed, carpels 2–5, fused; ovule 1, basal, orthotropous; stigmas 1–7. Fruit a small dry or fleshy drupe or indehiscent berry.

屬

About 10 genera, with more than 3,000 species, pantropical. Two genera in Taiwan.

參考文獻

LIN, TZER-TONG and LU, SHENG-YOU, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 2: 624. 1996. (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)
Quisumbing, E., Philippine Journal of Science 43: 1-677. 1930. (Philipp. J. Sci.)

Piper 胡椒屬

作者

LIN, TZER-TONG and LU, SHENG-YOU

型態特徵

Dioecious or rarely monoecious, or sometimes flowers perfect, shrubs or herbs, mostly scandent climbing, with prominent nodes, somewhat aromatic. Leaves entire, alternate, petiolate, usually stipulate, simple, often unequally sided. Inflorescences spicate, leaf-opposed or axillary, densely flowered. Flowers minute, sessile, mostly unisexual, each subtended by a peltate bract; perianth none; stamens 2 or more, anthers usually 2-celled; ovary 1-celled, 1-ovuled; stigmas mostly 2–5. Fruit small, subglobose or ovoid, 1-seeded.