Plumbaginaceae
藍雪科
特徵描述
作者
LI, Hui-Lin
型態特徵
Herbs or shrubs, acaulescent or with elongated branched stems. Leaves alternate, estipulate. Flowers bisexual, regular, 5-merous, often in one-sided racemes or in umbels; the bracts often sheathing, scarious. Calyx tubular or funnelform, 5-toothed or lobed, 5–15 ribbed, plaited, often scarious or colored. Corolla of 5 petals united into a tube or connate only at base, imbricate, usually small, persistent. Stamens 5, opposite the petals or corolla lobes, usually inserted on corolla, anthers 2-locular, longitudinally dehiscent. Ovary superior, 1-celled; style 5, free or connate; ovules solitary, pendulous. Fruit a utricle, sometimes circumscissile; seeds with or without endosperm, embryo large, erect.
屬
About 25 genera and 440 species, of wide distribution, mainly in the Mediterranean region and Central Asia; two genera in Taiwan.
參考文獻
- Peng, Z. X. & R. V. Kamelin. 1996. Flora of China Family 15: 190-204. (Fl. China)
- Yamazaki, T. 1993. Fl. Japan, Vol. IIIa, Angiospermae, Dicotyledoneae, Sympetalae (a). Kodansha Ltd., Japan. 96-97.
- LI, Hui-Lin. 1998. Flora of Taiwan, second edition 4: 79. (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)
Limonium 石蓯蓉屬
作者
LI, Hui-Lin
型態特徵
Perennial herbs, rarely annuals, sometimes shrubby. Leaves radical and tufted, thick, petiolate, entire or pinnatifid, base dilated. Flowers bisexual, regular, small, in tiny spikelets borne in one-sided spikes or umbels, spikes in panicles or corymbs; calyx tubular, scarious, often colored, spreading, 10-ribbed at base; petals 5, small, clawed, connate only at base, persistent; stamens 5, opposite, inserted at base of petals; styles 5, rarely 3, separate. Fruit membranaceous, enclosed in the persistent calyx, indehiscent.
About 300 species, widely distributed, chiefly in deserts, along seashores and in rocky mountain areas of the northern hemisphere; two species in Taiwan.
