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
Paederia 雞屎藤屬
作者
LIU, Ho-Yih, YANG, T. Y. Aleck, LI, Sung-Po and LI, Hen-Jung
型態特徵
Perennial dextrosely twining lianas; foetid when bruised; branches terete. Leaves opposite or ternate, penninerved, petiolate; stipules interpetiolar, shallowly deltate, entire, caducous early. Inflorescences paniculate cymes, terminal or in upper leaf axils, terminal branches often cincinnoid. Flowers bisexual; calyx campanulate, 5-dentate or lobed, persistent; corolla salverform, white outside, lobes 5, margin incurved, valvate; stamens 5, inserted in tube, included; ovary 2-celled, ovule 1 per cell, style filiform, included or exserted, stigma long twisted; fruit a drupe, with two 1-seeded pyrenes.
