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Polygonaceae

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LIU, HO-YIH

型態特徵

Annual or perennial herbs, shrubs, trees or climbing lianas; stems often swollen at the nodes. Leaves mostly alternate; stipules often connate into a tubular sheath called an ocrea. Flowers hermaphroditic or unisexual, regular, pedicellate, articulate to the pedicel, often with stipitate base above the articulation; perianth segments (2-)5- or 6-merous, in two whorls, basally connate into a floral tube, persistent and often enlarged in fruit. Stamens usually 6–9, perigynous, in 2 whorls. Carpels mostly 3; ovary superior, unilocular; styles 1–4; ovule single, basal or free-central. Fruit an achene or a small nut, often subtended by the accrescent perianth.

About 30 to 43 genera with more than 1,100 species worldwide. Three genera, with 45 species and varieties in Taiwan. Several genera, including Antigonon, Coccoloba, Fagopyrum, Muehlenbeckia, and Rheum, are in cultivation.

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Polygonum 蓼屬

作者

KUO, CHI-FAN, LIU, HO-YIH and YANG, YUEN-PO

型態特徵

Annual or perennial herbs; stems erect to climbing. Leaves alternate, simple, sessile to petiolate; stipules connate into ocreae. Inflorescences usually spike- or head-like panicles with terminal or axillary flower fascicles, simple or branched, loosely to densely flowered; flower fascicles bracteate. Flowers small, one to several in a fascicle, pedicellate, bracteolate; perianth segments 4–6, basally connate into floral tube, greenish-white, pink, or red, frequently persistent in fruit; stamens 5–8; styles 2- or 3-cleft, nectaries often present. Achenes brown to black, lenticular to trigonous.

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