特徵描述
作者
LIU, Ho-Yih, YANG, T. Y. Aleck, LI, Sung-Po and LI, Hen-Jung
型態特徵
Trees, shrubs, lianas, or herbs. Leaves simple, mostly entire, commonly decussately opposite, often with connate interpetiolar stipules, or sometimes whorled, or rarely stipules intrapetiolar. Inflorescence basically cymose, terminal or lateral, rarely solitary flowers. Flowers mostly complete, rarely unisexual, nearly always epigynous, often heterostyle, zoophilous or rarely anemophilous, actinomorphic or rarely zygomorphic, often tetramerous or pentamerous. Calyx adnate to the ovary, aestivation open, lobes minute or obsolete, sometimes one or more enlarged and colored. Corolla sympetalous, salverform, rotate or funnelform. Stamens as many as and alternate corolla lobes, attached within corolla tube or at mouth; anthers dithecal, opening longitudinally. Ovary nearly always inferior, often bicarpellate; style single, terminal; stigma capitate or lobed. Fruit a capsule, berry, drupe, or schizocarp.
屬
About 630 genera, especially abundant in tropical and subtropical regions; 38 genera in Taiwan.
參考文獻
Canthium 朴萊木屬
作者
LIU, Ho-Yih, YANG, T. Y. Aleck, LI, Sung-Po and LI, Hen-Jung
型態特徵
Shrubs or trees. Leaves penninerved, petiolate; stipules interpetiolar, entire. Flowers in axillary bundles or cymes, often reduced to small fascicles, rarely solitary, bisexual; calyx campanulate or tubular, 4–6-dentate; corolla funnelform or urceolate, greenish or white, usually pilose on throat; lobes 4–6, valvate, spreading or reflexed; stamens inserted in throat, ovary usually 2-celled, ovule 1 per cell, style filiform, slightly exserted, stigma cylindrical, 2–4-lobed; fruit a drupe, with one 2-seeded or two 1-seeded pyrenes.
