Serjania

• Authority

  Acevedo-Rodríguez, Pedro & collaborators. 1996. Flora of St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 78: 1-581.

• Family

  Sapindaceae

• Scientific Name

  Serjania

• Description

  Genus Description - Woody or herbaceous vines, often producing milky latex; cross section of stem with a single vascular cylinder or multiple Leaves trifoliolate, biternate, triternate, or 5-foliolate; stipules small and early deciduous. Flowers zygomorphic, functionally unisexual or bisexual (plants polygamo-dioecious), in axillary or terminal thyrses, usually bearing a pair of tendrils at the base of the flowering rachis; calyx of 4-5 unequal sepals; petals 4, mostly spatulate, with basally adnate hood-shaped appendage; nectary disk unilateral, 2- or 4-lobed; receptacle sometimes enlarged into a short androgynophore; stamens 8, slightly exserted, the filaments unequal, the anthers dorsifixed; ovary of 3 uniovular carpels, the style terminal, with 3 stigmatic branches. Fruit a dry schizocarp splitting into 3 mericarps, with a proximal wing; seeds lenticular to globose.