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Rubiaceae

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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.

About 630 genera, especially abundant in tropical and subtropical regions; 38 genera in Taiwan.

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Coptosapelta 瓢簞藤屬

作者

LIU, Ho-Yih, YANG, T. Y. Aleck, LI, Sung-Po and LI, Hen-Jung

型態特徵

Lianas. Leaves opposite, penninerved, petiolate; stipules interpetiolar, entire. Flowers axillary and solitary in the upper leaf axils, or in terminal paniculate cymes, bisexual; calyx campanulate or tubular, 5-dentate; corolla funnelform, white, hairy inside; lobes 5, contorted, spreading or reflexed; stamens 5, inserted in throat, filaments short, anthers pilose, sagittate, exserted; ovary 2-celled, ovule numerous per cell, style filiform, exserted, upper part thickened, stigma capitate; fruit a capsule, loculicidal with 2 valves; seeds ribbed or winged.

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