特徵描述
作者
KAO, Muh-Tsuen and PENG, Ching -I
型態特徵
Herbs, annual, biennial and perennial; stems erect or creeping. Leaves radical or cauline, simple, alternate, opposite or verticillate, rarely pinnately lobed, estipulate. Flowers in racemes, axillary or superposed verticils, bisexual, usually actinomorphic; calyx persistent, (4–)–5(–9)-lobed; corolla rotate, salverform or infundibuliform, sometimes subcampanulate, imbricate in bud, limb 4–9-lobed; stamens as many as corolla lobes and opposite them, inserted on tube; staminodes rare, alternate with stamens; ovary superior, glabrous or pubescent, 1-locular; ovules many, placentation free-central. Seeds small, many, endosperm copious.
屬
Twenty-two genera and about 1,000 species; mainly in the northern hemisphere, a few in the tropics and the southern hemisphere; five genera and fourteen species in Taiwan.
參考文獻
- Chen, F. H., C. M. Hu, Y. Y. Fang, C. Z. Cheng, Y. C. Yang, & R. F. Huang., Flora Reipublicae Popularis Sinicae 59(1): 217. 1989. (Fl. Reip. Pop. Sin.)
- Hu, C. M. & S. Kelso., Flora of China Family 15: 39-189. 1996. (Fl. China)
- KAO, Muh-Tsuen and PENG, Ching -I, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 4: 57. 1989. (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)
Stimpsonia 施丁草屬
作者
KAO, Muh-Tsuen and PENG, Ching -I
型態特徵
Erect, glabrous or pubescent herbs, stems usually solitary, few branched. Leaves radical and cauline, alternate, linear to ovate, margins entire or obtusely toothed. Flowers small, white, in terminal Racemes or corymbs, pedicel often bracteate near middle; calyx tube adnate to lower part of ovary, limb persistent, 5-lobed; corolla subcampanulate, with staminodes, anthers obtuse to acuminate; ovary globose; ovules many. Capsules ovoid-globose, 5-valved, longitudinally dehiscent; seeds minute.
