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
Severinia 烏柑屬
作者
CHANG, CHING-EN and HARTLEY, TOM G.
型態特徵
Unarmed or spinous shrubs or trees. Leaves alternate, 1-foliolate, coriaceous, persistent, entire or crenulate; stipulate scales often present. Flowers axillary, rarely terminal, fascicled or in short racemed corymbs or panicles, rarely solitary; calyx 3–5-lobed, rarely irregularly split; petals 3–5, tree or adnate to the stamens and united with them into a tube, imbricate; stamens 6–8, rarely 15–20, inserted around an annular or cupular disc; filaments tree or connate, subequal or the alternate ones short; anthers short, ovate-oblong; ovary 2- or 4- celled; style deciduous, the stigma capitate; ovules solitary or 2 collateral in each cell. Berry large, subglobose, 1–5-celled ; seeds oblong.