Meliosma 泡花樹屬
型態特徵
Trees or shrubs, usually pubescent or tomentose. Leaves simple or odd-pinnate; leaflets subopposite, the terminal rarely wanting. Flowers in branched panicles, small or minute, hermaphroditic; bract caducous; bracteoles and sepals 5–9, persistent, forming an uninterrupted whorl around the much larger petals, the other ones smaller; petals 5, 3 larger, nearly orbicular, valvate or imbricate, 2 smaller, interior, placed behind the fertile stamens; stamens 5, 2 fertile, opposite the smaller petals, the filaments short, flattened, incurved, expanded at the top into a cup, which bears two globose cells; 3 stamens deformed, opposite the larger petals and forming a cup; disc cupular or annular, with 2–5 simple or toothed teeth; ovary sessile, 2- rarely 3-celled, the style simple or 2-partite, the stigma pointed; ovules 2 in each cell. Drupe small, oblique, subglobose; stone crustaceous, 1-celled, with a basilar rounded projection; seeds globose, the testa mem¬branaceous.
About 60 species, chiefly in tropical Asia with a few in S. America. Four species in Taiwan.
