特徵描述
作者
HSIEH, CHANG-FU, LING, LAI-KUAN and YANG, KUOH-CHENG
型態特徵
Erect evergreen trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, simple, usually serrate, penninerved, estipulate. Flowers axillary, rarely terminal, solitary, occasionally fasciculate, actinomorphic, usually bisexual, often with 2 bracts below the calyx. Sepals mostly 5, imbricate, free or very shortly united, often unequal. Petals 5, rarely 4 to many, free or basally connate, imbricate. Stamens numerous, rarely as few as 5, free or connate below, usually adnate to base of petals. Ovary superior, rarely half-inferior, mostly 3–5-celled, ovules 2 to many in each cell, placentas axile; styles as many as carpels, free or partly connate. Fruit a berry or drupaceous, but often capsular; seeds 1 to many, winged or wingless; embryo large, straight or curved; endosperm present or absent, rarely abundant.
屬
Nearly 17 genera, with about 600 species; mostly distributed in eastern and southeastern Asia, with several genera in South America, Central America, Africa and southeastern United States; nine genera in Taiwan.
參考文獻
Ternstroemia 厚皮香屬
作者
HSIEH, CHANG-FU, LING, LAI-KUAN and YANG, KUOH-CHENG
型態特徵
Evergreen trees or shrubs; leaves coriaceous, spirally arranged or pseudo-verticillate at apices of stems. Flowers axillary, solitary, bisexual or polygamous; bracteoles 2; sepals 5, imbricate, persistent; petals 5, connate at base; stamens numerous, connate and united with petals at base, anthers basifixed, glabrous; ovary 2–4-celled with 2–4 ovules in each cell; style simple, with a 2–3-lobed stigma. Fruit fleshy, indehiscent. Seeds few, large, flattened; endosperm scanty.
