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
Serissa 滿天星屬
作者
YANG, T.Y.Aleck
型態特徵
Shrubs. Leaves opposite or clustered at end of branchlets, sessile or subsessile; stipules connate with the petiole forming a bristly sheath. Flowers white, in terminal solitary or clustered in axillary, peduncles absent; calyx tube campanulate, 4–6-lobed, lobes triangle or triangle-lanceolate; corolla tube cup-like, 4–6-lobed, valvate in bud, mouth of throat and inside pubescent; stamens as many as lobes, inserted on corolla; styles filiform, stigma 2-lobed, pubescent, ovary 2-celled; ovule 1 in each cell. Fruit a drupe. Seeds 2.
