Allophylus L.

• Authority

  Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.

• Family

  Sapindaceae

• Scientific Name

  Allophylus L.

• Description

  
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  Description - Shrubs or email trees, with alternate estipulate 1-3-foliolate leaves, the leaflets broad, usually punctate or lineate, the small subglobose, somewhat irregular, polygamous or dioecious flowers in axillary, simple or compound racemes. Sepals 4, in 2 pairs, imbricated, hooded, the outer smaller than the inner. Petals 4, small, or sometimes wanting. Disk unilateral, lobed or 4-glandular. Stamens short. Ovary excentric, compressed, 2-celled or rarely 3-celled; ovules 1 in each cavity; style stout, 2-3-lobed, or styles 2 or 3. Fruit small, dry, leathery or fleshy. Seed with a short fleshy aril; cotyledons 2-plicate. [Greek, exotic] Eighty species or more, mostly of tropical America. Type species: Allophylus seylanicus L.