特徵描述
作者
HSU, Tsai-Wen, KUOH, Chang-Sheng and HSIEH, Chang-Fu
型態特徵
Perennial evergreen herbs or saprophytes without chlorophyll. Leaves alternate, subopposite or in false whorls, simple, foliaceous or scale-like, mostly coriaceous and toothed. Flowers bisexual, actinomorphic or nearly so, bracteate; calyx of 5 free or shortly connate sepals; petals 4 or 5, free or united, hypogynous; stamens 8–10 distinct; anthers dorsifixed, 2-celled, opening by pores; ovary 5-lobed, locules 5 or sometimes incompletely chambered; placentas thick, bearing numerous small anatropous ovules. Fruit a loculicidal capsule, rarely a berry; seeds minute, testa loose, endosperm abundant.
屬
A family of about 14 genera and 57 species, chiefly in the boreal and temperate regions of the northern hemisphere; five genera in Taiwan.
參考文獻
Cheilotheca 水晶蘭屬
作者
HSU, Tsai-Wen, KUOH, Chang-Sheng and HSIEH, Chang-Fu
型態特徵
Saprophytic perennial herbs, whitish, often fleshy, lacking chlorophyll. Stem simple, erect. Leaves alternate, scale-like. Flower solitary, terminal, nodding; calyx lobes separate, scale-like; petals 3–5, slightly longer than sepals; stamens 10, filaments linear; anthers transversely dehiscent; ovary ovoid, l-locular, placentae parietal, 5–13, style short, thick, stigma funnel-form, depressed in center. Berry nodding, ovoid-globose; seeds numerous, minute.
