作者

LI, Hui-Lin

型態特徵

Shrubs or trees, usually with stellate pubescence. Leaves alternate, simple, estipulate. Flowers perfect, regular, solitary and axillary or in clusters, racemes or panicles terminating short lateral branches; calyx 4–5-lobed or cleft, free or adnate to ovary; petals 4–8, nearly separate or more usually united at base, imbricate or valvate, stamens twice as many as petals, inserted at their base; ovary superior or inferior, 3–5-celled below, ovules one-several in each cell; style slender, stigmas 1–5 . Fruit a dry or fleshy drupe. Seeds with endosperm.

屬

A family with ca. eight genera and over 100 species in eastern Asia, the Mediterranean region and North to South America. Two genera in Taiwan.

引用文獻

• LI, Hui-Lin, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 4: 95. 1998.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit., 台灣植物誌第二版)