CAPRIFOLIACEAE 1. TRIOSTEUM Linnaeus, Sp. Pl. 1: 176. 1753
CAPRIFOLIACEAE 忍冬科 ren dong ke Yang Qiner (杨亲二)1; Sven Landrein2, Joanna Osborne2, Renata Borosova2 Shrubs or woody climbers, rarely small trees or herbs. Leaves opposite, rarely whorled, simple or pinnatifid, conduplicate or involute in vernation; interpetiolar stipules absent or rarely well developed. Inflorescence thyrsoid, axillary or terminal, compact or lax, cymes 1-, 2-, or 3-flowered; paired flowers sometimes with ovaries ± fused. Cymes with a pair of bracts and 2 pairs of bracte- oles, located at base of ovaries, ± fused, occasionally accrescent in fruit, rarely absent. Flowers bisexual, actinomorphic or zygo- morphic. Calyx 4- or 5-lobed. Corolla epigynous, gamopetalous; lobes 4 or 5, spreading, sometimes bilabiate, aestivation imbricate. Stamens (4 or)5, didynamous, alternating with corolla lobes, sometimes exserted; anthers free, 2-celled, opening by longitudinal slits, introrse. Ovary inferior, carpels 2–8, fused; placenta axile; ovules 1 to many per locule, some of which can be abortive, pendulous; style solitary; stigmas capitate or lobed. Fruit a berry, a drupe with 2–5 pyrenes, or a leathery achene. Seeds 1 to many; embryo small, straight; endosperm copious. Five genera and ca. 207 species: mostly in temperate regions of E Asia and E North America; five genera (one endemic) and 66 species (25 endemic) in China. Following recent phylogenetic studies (Bell et al., Harvard Pap. Bot. 6(2): 481–499. 2001; Donoghue et al., Harvard Pap. Bot. 6(2): 459–479. 2001; W. H. Zhang et al., Molec. Phylogen. Evol. 26: 176–189. 2002), Caprifoliaceae is now thought to include Caprifolieae, Diervilleae, Linnaeeae, Morinaceae, Dipsacaceae, and Valerianaceae. However, Blacklund and Pyck (Taxon 47: 657–661.
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