討論:金錦香屬

山羊百科，林文智老師的植物、山岳、攝影紀錄

8. OSBECKIA L. 金錦香屬

Herbs or shrubs, mostly erect and setose; branches commonly tetragonous. Leaves opposite or sometimes temate, entire, subcoriaceous, 3-7-nerved. Flowers terminal, solitary, capitate or panicled, purple or white, often bracteate; calyx-tubes ovoid, having stellate hairs or pectinate scales; calyx-lobes 5 or 4, usually stellate-hairy, rarely with simple hairs; petals 5-4; stamens 10 or 8, equal or subequal; anthers oblong, truncate-attenuate or beaked; connectives not produced at the base, slightly swollen or with two tubercles; ovary inferior, 4-5-celled, more or less adherent to the calyx, setose at apex; style filiform, simple; ovules very numerous; placentas axile. Capsules included in the calyx-tubes, opening by 4-5 pores at its free vertex; seeds very many, curved through half a circle, covered with minute elevated points. Species about 100, in tropical old world. Two species in Taiwan.

KEY TO SPECIES

1. Leaves ovate, about 3 cm broad; calyx with spreading stellate hairs throughout… 2. O. opipara

1. Leaves lanceolate-oblong, 0.8-1.2 cm broad; calyx with stellate hairs at the sinus… 1. O. chinensis