討論:鼠鞭草屬

山羊百科，林文智老師的植物、山岳、攝影紀錄

1. HYBANTHUS Jacq. 鼠鞭草屬

Small gnarly shrubs or herbs. Leaves alternate, more or less sessile; blade narrowly elliptic to almost needle-shaped, margin entire to incised; stipules in pairs, small. Flowers axillary, bisexual, zygomorphic, solitary, with a pair of bracteoles at the joint of peduncle and pedicel; sepals 5, more or less triangular, nearly equal, entire, without appendages at base, persistent; petals 5, unequal, the posterior ones small and straight, the anterior one extended to a lip, with a short spur at base; stamens 5, connivent around the gynoecium; filaments free, short; anther 2-celled, with a distinct membraneous connective appendage, the lower two with a patent gland at the base; ovary unilocular, ovules numerous, on 3-parietal placentas; style simple, geniculate at base, conspicuously clavate, with an anterior openning of stigmatic cavity. Fruit a 3-valved capsule, subglobose, valves leathery. Seeds numerous, ellipsoid, with longitudinal ribs.

About 150 species, chiefly in tropical and subtropical regions of the world; one species in Taiwan.