討論:白珠樹屬

山羊百科，林文智老師的植物、山岳、攝影紀錄

2. GAULTHERIA L. 白珠樹屬

Shrubs, erect or procumbent. Leaves persistent, alternate, serrulate. Flowers small, sometimes dimorphic, in racemes or solitary, bracteate and 2-bracteolate; calyx ovoid, 5-lobed, enlarged in fruit and enclosing capsule; corolla ovoid, tubular, teeth small, recurved; stamens 10, filaments somewhat dilated, pilose, anther cells dorsally 1-2-horned; ovary 5-celled, style cylindrical, stigma simple; ovules many per locule. Capsule 5-locular, loculicidally 5-valved from apex; seeds many, minute, subglobose. About 120 species in North America, West Indies, Indo-Malaysian region, eastern Asia to Australia; two species in Taiwan.

KEY TO SPECIES

1. Flowers in axillary racemes; leaves 5-8 cm long ...................... 2. G. cumingiana

1. Flowers in pseudo-terminal racemes; leaves 1-1.5 cm long ............. 1.G. itoana