特徵描述
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
Cissus 粉藤屬
作者
LU, FU- YUAN
型態特徵
Deciduous or evergreen shrubs climbing by tendrils, rarely herbs with tuberous roots. Leaves alternate, more or less fleshy, simple or compound. Flowers perfect of polygamo-monoecious, 4-merous, in usually umbel-like cymes, opposite a leaf or terminal. Petals expanding; disc cupular, 4-lobed or of 4 distinct glands; ovary globose; styles filiform with a minute stigma. Fruit a 1–2-seeded berry.
