Trochodendraceae
昆欄樹科
特徵描述
作者
LI, HUI-LIN ; CHAW, SHU-MIAW
型態特徵
Trees; the wood without vessel; the entire plant glabrous. Leaves spiral, simple, the margin serrate, stipules minute or wanting, palmate- or pinnate-nerved. Flowers disymmetric or actinomorphic, in spikes or raceme-like cyme, bisexual, yellowish; perianths reduced into thin scales or none; stamens 4 or (45-)60-75(85), with basifixed, latrorse anthers, the theca opened by two valves; carpels 4-11, conduplicate, semi-inferior, dorsal part of ovary horizontally extended and nectariferous; stigmas slender, at distal portion of carpel, recurved when receptive; ovary 1-loculed, with 5-30(-40) ovules per ovary. Fruits follicles; seeds small.
屬
Two monotypic genera in northeastern India, China, Japan to Taiwan, one in Taiwan.
