特徵描述
作者
CHANG, CHING-EN and HARTLEY, TOMG
型態特徵
Trees, shrubs, rarely herbs, with abundant pellucid glands, filled with essential oils. Leaves opposite or alternate, simple or compound, estipulate. Inflorescence various. Flowers usually regular, hermaphroditic or polygamous; sepals 4–5, free or connate; petals 4–5, rarely none, imbricate or valvate; stamens as many or twice as many as the petals, sometimes fewer or more numerous; disc usually annular or cushion-like, between the ovary and stamens; ovary superior, usually deeply lobed, typically 4–5-loculed, the carpels more or less connate, or free, rarely 1-carpellary; ovules solitary or geminate. Fruit various, separating into as many cocci as carpels or baccate. Seeds usually solitary in each cell, the testa various; endosperm fleshy or 0; embryo straight or curved.
屬
About 140 genera with 1,300 species, tropical and temperate; 13 genera in Taiwan.
參考文獻
Boenninghausenia 臭節草屬
作者
CHANG, CHING-EN and HARTLEY, TOM G.
型態特徵
Slender, thin perennials with pellucid glands; stems terete, branched; leaves alternate, ternately 2- to 3-pinnate, the leaflets entire; panicles compound, leafy at base. Flowers white, bisexual; sepals small, 4, connate at base, persistent; petals 4, imbricate; disc urceolate; stamens 6–8, inserted on the base of the disc; ovary stipitate, 4-locular, the style short, connate, deciduous; ovules 6–8 in each locule. Fruitlets free, 4, dehiscent; seeds few in each fruitlet, black, tuberclet, reniform, the embryo fleshy.
