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
Pyrola 鹿蹄草屬
作者
HSU, Tsai-Wen, KUOH, Chang-Sheng and HSIEH, Chang-Fu
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.
