作者

HUANG, TSENG-CHIENG

型態特徵

Herbs or shrubs, with opposite, pinnately or bifoliolately compound, stipulate leaves and entire leaflets; stipules often spine-like. Flowers actinomorphic, or zygomorphic, 5-merous, with usually 10 distinct stamens in 2 whorls, and a single pistil of 2–6 united carpels; stamens often with scales on their inner sides; disc often present; ovary superior, the styles united into a short column; ovules usually 2 in each carpel. Fruit a capsule, berry, or drupe, sometimes forming a bur-like schizocarp.

屬

A family of 25 genera and about 160 species in the warm and dry regions. One genus in Taiwan.

參考文獻

• HUANG, TSENG-CHIENG, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 3: 410. 1993.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)