Vitaceae
葡萄科
特徵描述
註：依本站目前採用的分類系統，本科部分屬在《Flora of Taiwan》中分屬不同科，因此以下依植物誌使用的科名分列特徵描述。
[ Leeaceae 火筒樹科 ]
作者
LU, FU-YUAN
型態特徵
Shrubs or small trees. Leaves alternate, large, 1–4-pinnate, rarely simple; leaflets ovate to oblong-lanceolate, tooth large. Flowers red, yellow or green; calyx 5- rarely 4-toothed; petals as many as the calyx-teeth, connate below and adhering to the staminal tube; filaments connate and included; ovary 3–6 celled, the cells with 1 ovule each. Fruit a 3–6-seeded succulent or rather dry subglobose berry.
屬
One genus in the tropics.
參考文獻
[ Vitaceae 葡萄科 ]
作者
LU, FU- YUAN
型態特徵
Vines climbing by means of tendrils. Leaves alternate or the lower sometimes opposite, simple or absent. Flowers regular, perfect or unisexual, small, cymose, umbellately paniculately or racemosely arranged, leaf opposed; calyx small, entire or 4–5 toothed or lobed; petals 4–5, free or united, valvate, caducous; stamens 4 or 5, opposite to the petals, inserted at the base of disc or between its lobes, anthers free or connate, extrorse, 2-locular, opening lengthwise; disc intra-staminal, mostly very distinct, free or connate with stamens or ovary; ovary 2–6-celled, style short or none, stigma capitate or discoid; ovules 1–2 in each cell. Fruit baccate, 1–6-celled, watery; seeds with small embryo and copious endosperm.
參考文獻
Ampelopsis 山葡萄屬
作者
LU, FU- YUAN
型態特徵
Deciduous shrubs, climbing by tendrils; branches more or less nodose, tendrils twining, without disc-like tips, opposite to the leaves. Leaves alternate, simple or compound. Flowers perfect, small, greenish, in long-peduncled dicho¬tomous cymes opposite to the leaves, or terminal, 5-merous, rarely 4-merous; calyx indistinct, subentire; petals expanding; disc cupular, with its base adhering to the ovary; stamens short; ovary 2-celled, entire or crenulate on the margin, style slender, subulate, stigma undivided; ovules 2 in each cell. Fruit a 1–4-seeded berry; seeds ovoid, smooth, with a very short beak.
About 20 species in N. America, C. and E. Asia; two species in Taiwan.
