作者

CHEN, CHING-HSIA

型態特徵

Trees, shrubs, vines or rarely herbs. Leaves usually alternate, pinnately or palmately compound, rare simple; stipules none or in some climbing species present. Flower usually small, unisexual or bisexual, in racemes, panicles or corymbs, actinomorphic or commonly zygomorphic; calyx 4–5, imbricate or valvate sepals; petals 4–5 or wanting, often with hairs or scales at the base inside; hypogynous discs well developed, situated between petals and stamens; stamens usually 8–10, the filaments distinct or united at base; ovary superior, 2–4-celled, with one or more ovules in each cell; placentation axile or parietal, the style simple or divided. Fruit various, drupaceous or capsular, entire or lobed, sometimes winged. Seeds often arillate globose or compressed, albuminous or exalbuminous.

屬

About 150 genera and over 1,500 species, of wide distribution in the tropics and warm region.

參考文獻

• CHEN, CHING-HSIA, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 3: 599. 1993.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)