Monographs Details:
Authority:
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
Family:
Sapindaceae
Sapindaceae
Description:
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.
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.