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Violaceae Batsch, Tab. Affin. Regni Veg., 57. 1802.
堇菜科
Jenn-Che Wang
Herbs, rarely shrubs. Leaves alternate, rarely opposite, simple; stipules leafy or small. Flowers in Taiwan solitary in the leaf axil, bisexual, zygomorphic, sometimes cleistogamous; sepals 5, persistent; petals 5, unequal, the anthers 2-celled, introrse, the top produced a membranaceous appendage convering with others, the lower two often spurred, longitudinally dehiscent; pistil1, ovary superior, unilocular with fenerally 3 carpel, parietal; ovules many, antropous. Fruit a 3-valved capsule. Seeds many, sessile; endosperm fleshy; embryo straight.
About 17 genera and 900 species, cosmopolitan. Two genera in Taiwan.
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Plant somewhat woody at base; leaves sessile or subsessile; pedicels articulate; sepals without basal appendages; seeds ribbed lengthwise |
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Plants herbaceous; leaves petiolate; pedicels not articulate; sepals with basal appendage; seeds smooth |
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Viola |
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Lower Taxa
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