散血丹屬

Shrubs or herbs; pubescence of simple hairs; stems dichotomously branched. Leaves simple, petiolate. Inflorescences in branch forks, occasionally axillary, solitary or sometimes 2- or 3-flowered clusters; peduncle short or obsolete. Flowers mostly radially symmetrical, 5-merous, long pedicellate, nodding; calyx short campanulate or conical, lobed to halfway, the lobes equal or not; corolla broadly campanulate to rotate, lobed to halfway, the lobes wide spreading, densely villous near the base of the tube, sometimes spotted; stamens inserted in the corolla tube, filaments pubescent or glabrous, anthers dehiscing longitudinally; nectaries sometimes present; ovary 2-locular, ovules numerous. Fruit a juicy or fleshy berry enveloped in the enlarged fruiting calyx; fruiting calyx applied to berry or inflated, mostly open at the apex, veins obscure or thickened into angles or ribs, mostly muricate or bristly with soft emergences that appear triangular and scalelike when dry, these sometimes localized on angles; seeds numerous, reniform-discoid, minutely pitted; embryo curved, subperipheral.

About nine species in eastern Asia; one in Taiwan.

Lower Taxon

• Physaliastrum chamaesarachoides (Makino) Makino

Related Synonym(s):

• Physalis chamaesarachoides Makino = Physaliastrum chamaesarachoides (Makino) Makino
• Physalis linii Y. C. Liu & C. H. Ou = Physaliastrum chamaesarachoides (Makino) Makino