【摘要】 本文对中国水团花亚族植物作了新整理,记载了6属9种,对各个种的形态、地理分布和经济用途也作了详细叙述。更多还原

【Abstract】 The Rubiaceae, containing approximately 6000 species and over 600 genera over the world,is the third largest family of dicotyledons. It is a mostly tropical group of trees shrubs climbers and herbs[4]. Acording to information gathered from Willis[2]by Aiello,about 37 percent of the genera are monotypic.As A.Aielio(1979)put it"This high incidence may be due to a lack of understanding of the essential generic characters within the family." The present paper attempts to review of the chinese species on the Adininae undertaken in the process of preparing for Flora Reipublicae Popularis Sinicae.These chinese species of the Adininae have previously been belonged to two genus by professor How,F.C.[5] in the Naucleeae (sensu ample). Neonauclea Merrill and Adina Salisb. (sensu amplo). The former contains three species. Neonauclea griffithii Merr., N. Nav-illei (Levl.) Rehd., N. sessilifolia Merr.; the later contains eleven species, in which contain two new species and one new variety and mistaken identification of one specimen. Adina affinis How,A. hainanensis How, A.polycephala Benth.var.glabra How, Adina pubicostata sensu How non Merrill, A, cordifolia Hook.f., A.mollifolia Hutch.,A.pilulifera (Lam.) Franchet ex Drake, A.polycephala Benth., A.racemosa Miq., A. rubella Hance and A.asperula Handel.-Mazz.Genera should usually only be radically changed when they are unnatural groups or when their status is inconsistent with that adapted elsewhere in the family or tribe to which they belong [1]:For this reason we concur in Ridsdale’s view of which that rather than return to the situation with one or two highly variable loosely defined genera, the older generic concepts have been remodeled and several small satellite gerera are distinguished[3].At the same time there is evidence that there is no reason why vegatative characters should not be as good as floral ones for the delimilation of taxa [1], which is used should depend on character correlation and discontinuty of variation.Therefore, the Adininae now is represented in China by nine species belonging to six genus respectively as key to the species of which one species in Taiwan.更多还原