《中国植物志》|| 木棉科 BOMBACACEAE ||木棉科 BOMBACACEAE ||吉贝属 Ceiba Mill. emend. Gaertn.

4.吉贝属——Ceiba Mill. emend. Gaertn.
Mill. Gard. Dict. Abrid. Ed. 4. 1754; Gaertn., Fruct. 2: 244, t. 133. 1791.
落叶乔木，树干有刺或无刺。叶螺旋状排列，掌状复叶，小叶3-9，具短柄，无毛背面苍白色，大都全缘。花先叶开放，单1或2-15朵簇生于落叶的节上，下垂，辐射对称，稀近两侧对称；萼钟状坛状，不规则的3-12裂，厚，宿存；花瓣基部合生并贴生于雄蕊管上，与雄蕊和花柱一起脱落，淡红色或黄白色；雄蕊管短；花丝3-15，分离或分成5束，每束花丝顶端有1-3个扭曲的一室花药；子房5室；每室胚珠多数；花柱线形。蒴果木质或革质，下垂，长圆形或近倒卵形，室背开裂为5爿；果爿内面密被绵毛，由宿存的室隔基部以上脱落，室隔和中轴无毛；种子多数，藏于绵毛内，具假种皮；胚乳少。
10种。大都分布于美洲热带。我国栽培1种。

《云南植物志》|| 木棉科 Bombacaceae ||木棉科 Bombacaceae ||吉贝属 Ceiba Mill. emend. Gaertn.

4．吉贝属 Ceiba Mill. emend. Gaertn.
落叶乔木，树干有刺或无刺。叶螺旋状排列，掌状复叶，小叶3—9，具短柄，无毛，背面苍白色，大都全缘。花先叶开放，单一或2—15朵簇生于落叶的节上，下垂，幅射对称，稀近两侧对称，萼钟状坛状，不规则的3—12裂，厚，宿存；花瓣基部合生并贴生于雄蕊管上，与雄蕊和花柱一起脱落，淡红色或黄白色；雄蕊管短；花丝3—15，分离或分成5束，每束花丝顶端有1—3个扭曲的一室花药；子房5室；每室胚珠多数；花柱线形。蒴果木质或革质，下垂，长圆形或近倒卵形，室背开裂为5爿；果爿内面密被绵毛，由宿存的室隔基部以上脱落；室隔和中轴无毛；种子多数，藏于绵毛内，具假种皮。
10种，大都分布于热带美洲。我国栽培1种。

《Flora of China》|| Bombacaceae || ||吉贝属 Ceiba

3. Ceiba Miller, Gard. Dict. Abr., ed. 4. [287]. 1754.

吉贝属 ji bei shu

Chorisia Kunth; Eriodendron Candolle.

Trees, deciduous; trunk swollen and/or buttressed, trunk and branches usually spiny. Petiole long; leaf blade palmately compound; leaflets 3-5(-9), shortly petiolulate, both surfaces glabrous, abaxially gray-white, base attenuate, margin serrate or entire. Flowers blooming before or simultaneously with leaf flush, solitary or 2-15-fascicled, pendulous, axillary or subterminal, actinomorphic, rarely zygomorphic. Calyx campanulate, truncate or irregularly 3-5(-12)-lobed, thickly fleshy, persistent. Petals 5, pink or yellow-white, connate at base and coherent to staminal tube, falling with stamens and style. Stamens (3-)5-15; filament tube short, sometimes thickened or with sterile appendages, free parts of filament long to absent, each bearing 2(or 3) straight to strongly twisted thecae. Ovary syncarpous, 5-locular; ovules many per cell; style filiform; stigma capitate to lobulate. Capsule oblong or nearly obovate, pendulous, woody or leathery, loculicidally dehiscent into 5(or 6) valves, inner walls densely woolly. Seeds many, enclosed in wool.

Seventeen species: W Africa (one species) and tropical America (16 species); one species (introduced) in China.