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Ranunculaceae

毛茛科

特徵描述
屬列表
Aconitum 烏頭屬
Anemone 銀蓮花屬
Calathodes 雞爪草屬
Cimicifuga 升麻屬
Clematis 鐵線蓮屬
Coptis 黃連屬
Dichocarpum 人字果屬
Ranunculus 毛茛屬
Semiaquilegia 天葵屬
Thalictrum 唐松草屬
Trollius 金蓮花屬
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Ranunculus 毛茛屬

作者

YANG, T. Y. ALECK and HUANG, TSENG-CHIENG

型態特徵

Annual or perennial herbs, terrestrial (most), aquatic or semi-aquatics; upright, spreading or sometimes creeping. Roots fibrous and/or stoloniferous rhizomes. Leaves dimorphic or monomorphic, simple, ternate, pinnate, biternate or bipinnate; unlobed, 3- or more lobed to 3-parted, chartaceous or subcoriaceous, margin entire or serrate, alternate or radical leaves forming a basal rosette with long sheathing petioles, cauline leaves short-petiolate, subsessile to sessile; stipules absent. Inflorescence terminal or axillary, a cyme or flowers solitary. Flowers bisexual, actinomorphic, yellow, white, or red; sepals 5, green, deciduous; petals larger than sepals, usually 5, sometimes 6(-10), with a nectariferous spot, cup-shaped or covered by a scale, clawed; stamens numerous, glabrous, anthers oblong or narrowly ovate, filaments linear; carpels many, with an ascending ovule, spirally arranged on glabrous or pubescent receptacle. Fruits aggregated forming a globose or ellipsoid head; achenes ovate, orbicular, obovate or elliptic, compressed or convex in lateral view; glabrous or hairy, scabrous or papillate; style persistent or not, or lengthening to become beaklike after anthesis.

About 250 species in temperate and frigid regions worldwide, but mainly in Asia and Europe; about 80 species in mainland China and 11 species in Taiwan.