特徵描述
屬列表
Cheilotheca 水晶蘭屬
Chimaphila 愛冬葉屬
Moneses 單花鹿蹄草屬
Monotropa 錫杖花屬
Pyrola 鹿蹄草屬
標本列表
Pyrola 鹿蹄草屬
型態特徵
Perennial, glabrous herbs. Leaves radical, alternate, usually long petiolate, entire or serrate. Flowers in erect bracteate racemes, nodding, white, reddish or purplish; calyx 5-parted, persistent; petals 5, concave, caducous; stamens 10, erect or declined, filaments subulate, glabrous, anthers reflexed in bud, 4-1ocular, apex rounded or 2-tubular, dehiscing by terminal pores; ovary subglobose, 5-1ocular; style erect or declined, apex filiform or clavate, stigma 5-lobed; ovules numerous, on thickened placentas of the persistent axis; disc absent or 10-crenate. Capsules subglobose, 5-1ocular, dehiscent; seeds small, testa produced at both ends.
About 40 species in the temperate regions of the northern hemisphere; three species in Taiwan.
