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.

屬

Genera 12 or more, mostly in tropical and subtropical regions; six in Taiwan.

參考文獻

• LU, FU- YUAN, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 3: 696. 1993.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)