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
Gardenia 黃梔屬
作者
YANG, T. Y. Aleck
型態特徵
Shrubs or trees; stipules intrapetiolar, usually connate. Flowers large, solitary, terminal or axillary; calyx-tube campanulate or tubular, lobes 4–9; corolla-tube campanulate, base narrow or cylindric, 4–9-lobed, imbricate in the bud; stamens as many as corolla-lobes, usually exserted, anthers 2-lobed or entire; ovary l-celled, incompletely divided by 2 to 5 parietal projecting placentas; ovules many, immersed in the fleshy placenta. Fruits succulent, indehiscent, ovoid-globose, ellipsoid or cylindric, usually crowned by the persistent calyx-lobes, epicarp usually with ridges. Seeds many, immersed in the fleshy placenta; embryo small, endosperm horny.
