Sapindaceae
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Authority
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
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Family
Sapindaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
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Description - Trees or shrubs, with watery sap, rarely vines. Leaves alternate (opposite in one Chilian genus), mostly pinnate or palmate, without stipules. Flowers polygamo-dioecious, regular or slightly irregular. Sepals or calyx-lobes 4 or 5, mostly imbricated. Petals 3-5. Disk fleshy. Stamens 5-10 (rarely fewer or more), generally inserted on the disk. Ovary 1, 2-4-lobed or entire, 2-4-celled; ovules 1 or more in each cavity. Fruit various. Seeds globose or compressed; embryo mainly convolute; endosperm none. About 125 genera, including over 1.000 species, widely distributed in tropical and warm regions.