找植物
找標本
電子書

Violaceae

堇菜科

特徵描述
屬列表
標本列表

特徵描述

作者

WANG, JENN-CHE and HUANG, TSENG-CHIENG

型態特徵

Herbs, rarely shrubs. Leaves alternate, rarely opposite, simple; stipules leafy or small. Flowers in Taiwan solitary in the leaf axils, bisexual, zygomorphic, sometimes cleistogamous; sepals 5, persistent; petals 5, unequal, the anterior one often spurred; stamens 5, hypogynous, closely connivent in a ring around the ovary, the anthers 2-celled, introrse, the top produced a membranaceous appendage convering with others, the lower two often spurred, longitudinally dehiscent; pistil 1, ovary superior, unilocular with generally 3 carpels, parietal; ovules many, antropous. Fruit a 3-valved capsule. Seeds many, sessile; endosperm fleshy; embryo straight.

About 17 genera and 900 species, cosmopolitan. Two genera in Taiwan.

參考文獻

Viola 堇菜屬

作者

WANG, JENN-CHE and HUANG, TSENG-CHIENG

型態特徵

Perennial herb. Leaves alternate, petiolate; blade suborbicular to linear-lanceolate, the margin serrate to crenate; stipules free or adnate to petiole, persistent, usually fimbriate or serrate, sometimes nearly entire. Flowers axillary, bisexual, zygomorphic, solitary, with a pair of bracteoles in the half of the peduncles; sepals 5, nearly equal, entire to denticulate, with appendages at base, persistent; petals 5, unequal, the lower one spurred at base, the lateral pair often bearded inside; stamens 5, connivent around the gynoecium; anther 2-celled, subsessile, connective produced into an apical appendage, the lower two bearing appendages projecting into the spur; ovary 1-celled, glabrous or pubescent, ovules numerous, on 3-parietal placentas; style straight or geniculate at base, filiform to conspicously clavate, often lobed or more or less dilated at apex, with a openning of stigmatic cavity terminal or anterior and subterminal. Fruit a 3-valved capsule, globose to ellipsoidal; valves boat-shaped, usually with thick rigid keels. Seeds numerous, ovoid or ellipsoidal with crustaceous testa.

More than 400 species, chiefly in temperate regions throughout the world. 18 taxa and one doubtful species in Taiwan.

參考文獻

種列表

標本列表

學名 中名 標本數
Loading...