特徵描述
作者
LIU, Ho-Yih
型態特徵
Herbs or shrubs, rarely trees or vines; some species hemiparasitic or parasitic. Leaves opposite or alternate, rarely whorled; exstipulate. Flowers in racemes, spikes, or thyrsoid panicles or solitary; perfect, usually irregular. Calyx lobes 5 or 4, rarely 1 or 2 by fusion. Corolla sympetalous, 4 or 5-lobed, often 2-lipped. Stamens epipetalous, usually 4 and didynamous, or 4 fertile and 1 sterile, rarely 2 or 5; anthers 1 or 2-celled, cells distinct or more or less confluent. Disc annular or cup-shaped. Ovary superior, 2-celled; style simple or sometimes forked; stigma capitate, dilated, or 2-lobed. Fruit a capsule, rarely baccate. Seeds small, hilum lateral or ventral.
屬
About 220 genera, worldwide; 25 genera in Taiwan.
參考文獻
Lindernia 母草屬
作者
LIU, Ho-Yih
型態特徵
Annual or perennial herbs, erect to prostrate. Leaves opposite, entire or serrate. Flowers solitary and axillary, in terminal or axillary racemes, or in subumbellate clusters; calyx 5-dentate, 5-lobed or 5-parted, 5-nerved, each nerve with rib or wing, ebracteolate; corolla blue, purple, violet, pink or white, tubular, bilabiate, upper lip outermost in bud, entire or 2-lobed; stamens 2 or 4, included or exserted, posterior pair fertile, anterior pair fertile, sterile or rudimentary, longer filaments often with appendages at or near base, anthers distinct, 2-celled, cells parallel or divaricate; style simple, stigma bilamellate. Capsule septicidal, 2-valved. Testa of seeds reticulate or scrobiculate.
