Hybanthus Jacq., Enum. Syst. Pl., 2:17. 1760.
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 disrinct membraneous connective appendage, the lower two with a patent gland a the base; ovary unilocular, ovules numerous, on 3-parietal placentas; style simple, geniculate at base, conspicuously clavate, with an anterior opening 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.
Peng, C. I. & Y. F. Chen. 1986. Hybanthus Jacq. (Violaceae), a new generic record for the Flora of Taiwan. Bot. Bull. Acad. Sin. 26:213-220.
