Serjania
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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
Description - Woody vines, with alternate petioled, mostly biternately compound leaves, and small polygamous white or yellowish flowers, in axillary racemes or panicles, which often bear tendrils. Sepals 5, imbricated. Petals 4, with small scales between. Disk undulate or sometimes glanduliferous. Stamens 8, the filaments sometimes united at the base. Ovary 3-celled; styles partly united; stigmas 3, small; ovules 1 in each cavity. Fruit of 3 samaras attached by their backs, each bearing a seed r.ear the apex. [Commemorates Paul Sergeant.] About 175 species, of tropical and subtropical America. Type species: Serjania sinuata (L.) Schum.