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
Timonius 貝木屬
作者
YANG, T. Y. Aleck
型態特徵
Trees or shrubs. Leaves opposite or in 3-whorled; stipules deciduous. Flowers axillary, unisexual, dioecious, solitary or in cymes, peduncles long; calyx-tube short, truncate, persistent; corolla coriaceous, funnelform, pubescent outside, glabrous inside, 4(–10)-lobed, valvate in bud; male Inflorescence: in cymes with a few to many secund flowers, stamens 4 to many, on throat of corolla, filaments short, rudimentary styles short, included, discs hairy; female Inflorescence: 1-flowered, usually with a long pedicel, rudimentary stamens short, linear, styles short, stigma 4 to many-lobed, ovary many-celled; ovules 1, pendulous in each cell. Fruits ovoid or globular, epicarps fleshy. Seeds cylindrical.
