討論:蛇菰屬
山羊百科，林文智老師的植物、山岳、攝影紀錄
1. BALANOPHORA J. R. & G. Forst. 蛇菰屬
Herbs red, white, yellow or brownish, with a tuberous rootstock, with stellate-lobulate warty lenticels. Leaves broad-based, whorled, opposite, distichous or spirally arranged. Inflorescence spadix-like, terminal. Flowers minute, unisexual, pedicellate or not. Male flowers larger, dispersed among female ones or at one end of spike, or on different spikes, mostly subtended by short, truncate bracts; perianth 3-6 merous; stamens without filament; anthers 3, 4-5 or numerous forming a synandrium. Female flowers without perianth; ovary 1-celled; ovule solitary, pendulous. Fruit minute, indehiscent; seeds globose, adhering to pericarp, with copious oily endosperm.
Species 15, in temperate to tropical Asia, Malesia, Pacific islands, tropical Australia, Madagascar and tropical Africa. Four species in Taiwan.
KEY TO SPECIES
1. Plants monoecious.
2. Male-flowers inserted among female flowers… 4. B. wrightii
2. Male-flowers separate from female flowers, on lower part of spike… 1. B. fungosa
1. Plants dioecious.
3. Male flowers pedicellate, mostly 3-merous; anthers 3; female spadices 1-2.5 cm long, oval-globose… 2. B. harlandii
3. Male flowers sessile, 4-6-merous; anthers numerous; female spadices 3-5 cm long, oval-cylindrical… 3. B. laxiflora
ツチトリモチ Balanophora japonica
リュウキュウツチトリモチ Balanophora kuroiwai ／ B. fungosa
