討論:野牡丹藤屬

山羊百科，林文智老師的植物、山岳、攝影紀錄

5. MEDINILLA Gaud. 野牡丹藤屬

Branching shrubs, erect or scandent; branches terete, angular or winged. Leaves opposite or whorled, entire, often fleshy, glabrous or nearly so, longitudinally 3-9-nerved. Flowers in terminal panicles or lateral simple or compound cymes, white or rose, with or without bracts, 4- or 5- rarely 6-merous; calyx-tube ovoid or cylindric, the limbs truncate or obscurely toothed; stamens twice as many as the petals, equal or nearly equal (rarely unequal); anthers opening at the top by a pore; connectives not (or very shortly) produced at the base but having two appendages in front and a spur behind; ovary inferior, 4-6 celled, usually glabrous at the apex; styles filiform; ovules very many, the placentas axile. Berry crowned by the limb of the calyx; seeds very many, ovoid or subfalcate. Species about 400, tropical Africa, Madagascar, India, China, Taiwan, Pacific islands and northern Australia; two species in Taiwan. KEY TO SPECIES 1. Leaves 5-nerved; branch nodes densely surrounded with appendages; inflorescence terminal… 2. M. formosana

1. Leaves 3-nerved; branch nodes sparsely surrounded with appendages; inflorescence axillary… 1. M. hayataina

21．酸腳杆屬　Medinalla Gaud.

直立或攀援灌木，或小喬木，陸生或附生，莖常四棱形，有時具翅。葉對生或輪生，全緣或具齒，通常3-5基出脈，稀9條，側脈平行，細脈網狀，通常不明顯；具葉柄或無。聚傘花序或由聚傘花序組成的圓錐花序，頂生、腋生、生於老莖上或根莖的節上；苞片小，早落；花通常4數，稀5數，極少6數，花萼杯形、漏斗形、鐘形或圓柱形，澹部裂片明顯或不明顯，通常具小尖頭或小突尖，花瓣倒卵形至卵形，或近圓形，有時上部偏斜；雄蕊為花瓣數目的1倍，等長或近等長，常同形；花絲絲狀，花藥線形、披針形或長圓形，頂端具喙，單孔開裂，基部具小瘤或線狀突起物，藥隔微膨大，下延呈短距；子房下位，卵形，頂端平截或冠以與子房室同數的裂片，有時具隔片；花柱絲狀，柱頭點尖。漿果通常壇形、球形或卵形，頂端冠以宿存萼簷部，不開裂，通常具小突起；種子小，多數，倒卵形或短楔形，具明顯的小突起或光滑。

約400種，分佈於非洲熱帶、馬達加斯加、印度至太平洋諸島及澳大利亞北部。我國約16種，1變種，分佈于雲南、西藏、廣西、廣東及臺灣等省區。 本屬有的種果可食。