特徵描述
作者
HUANG, TSENG-CHIENG
型態特徵
Herbs, sometimes shrubs. Leaves alternate, simple, estipulate. Flowers bisexual, zygomorphic; sepals 5, free, imbricate; petals 3-5, the outer 2 free or connate with the lowest one, the upper 2 free; stamens 4, 5 or 8, monadelphous, connate to above the middle; anthers opening by terminal pores; ovary superior, usually 2-locular; styles simple; ovules usually solitary in each locule. Fruit a capsule.
屬
About 10 genera, 700 species in tropical to temperate regions; two genera in Taiwan.
參考文獻
Polygala 遠志屬
作者
HUANG, TSENG-CHIENG
型態特徵
Herbs. Leaves subsessile to petiolate; blades ovate, elliptic to linear. Flowers in racemes, yellow, white or purple; sepals 5, unequal; petals 3, unequal; stamens 8; ovary 2-loculed, with one ovule in each locule. Capsules loculicidally dehiscent, 2-seeded. Seeds ovoid or globose.
參考文獻
- HUANG, TSENG-CHIENG, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 3: 571. 1993. (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)
- Burtt, B. L., Royal Bot. Gard. Edinburgh 32(3): 403-404. 1973.
種列表
- Polygala amara
- Polygala ambigua
- Polygala andina
- Polygala arcuata 巨葉花遠志
- Polygala arillata 荷包山桂花
- Polygala aureocauda 黃花倒水蓮
- Polygala brizoides
- Polygala carniolica
- Polygala chamaebuxus
- Polygala chinensis 華南遠志
- Polygala comosa
- Polygala cruciata
- Polygala curtissii
- Polygala depressa
- Polygala flagellaris
- Polygala incarnata
- Polygala japonica 瓜子金
- Polygala molluginifolia
- Polygala musyaensis
- Polygala nankotaizanensis
- Polygala nicaeensis
- Polygala nuttallii
- Polygala paniculata 圓錐花遠志
- Polygala paucifolia
- Polygala polyfolia 無柄花瓜子金
- Polygala polygama
- Polygala reinii
- Polygala setacea
- Polygala sp.
- Polygala tatarinowii 小扁豆
- Polygala venenosa
- Polygala verticillata
- Polygala vulgaris ssp. oxyptera
- Polygala vulgaris
