特徵描述
屬列表
Avicennia 海茄苳屬
Callicarpa 紫珠屬
Caryopteris 蕕屬
Clerodendrum 海州常山屬
Duranta 假連翹屬
Lantana 馬纓丹屬
Phyla 鴨舌癀屬
Premna 魚臭木屬
Sphenodesme 楔翅藤屬
Stachytarpheta 木馬鞭屬
Tectona 柚木屬
Verbena 馬鞭草屬
Vitex 牡荊屬
標本列表
Phyla 鴨舌癀屬
型態特徵
Mostly perennial herbs, procumbent or creeping, often rooting at nodes, densely appressed medifixed hairy. Leaves usually toothed. Inflorescence spicate, axillary, densely flowered, pedunculate. Flowers sessile, in axil of bracteole; calyx membranaceous, deeply bipartite, laterally compressed; corolla tube slender, straight or incurved, lobes 4 or 5, 2-lipped, spreading, rounded or emarginate; stamens 4, didynamous, included or slightly exserted; ovary 2-locular, ovule 1 per locule, style short, thick. Fruit dry, enclosed by persistent calyx, dividing into 2 pyrenes, pericarp leathery.
About 15 species, mostly in tropical and subtropical America; one species in Taiwan.
