作者

LAMMERS, Thomas G.

型態特徵

Annual herbs; stems erect, hollow. Leaves alternate, simple, exstipulate. Flowers perfect, sessile, each subtended by a bract and 2 bracteoles, in dense many-flowered terminal spikes; calyx adnate to ovary, forming a hypanthium, 5-lobed; corolla sympetalous, regular, imbricate; stamens 5, alternate with corolla lobes; filaments distinct, epipetalous; anthers distinct; ovary inferior and adnate to hypanthium, 2-(3-)celled, placentation axile; style solitary, glabrous; stigma capitate. Fruit circumscissile capsule; seeds minute, numerous.

屬

A single genus, previously assigned to Campanulaceae but best segregated in its own family.

參考文獻

• LAMMERS, Thomas G., Flora of Taiwan, second edition 4: 801. 1998.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit., 台灣植物誌第二版)
• Cronquist, A., Columbia University Press, New York. . 1981.
• Cosner, M. E., R. K. Jansen and T. G. Lammers., Pl. Syst. Evol. 190: 79-95. 1994.
• Gustafsson, M. H. G. and K. Bremer., American Journal of Botany 82: 250-265. 1995.  (Amer. J. Bot.)