- Family:
- Sapindaceae Juss.
Sapindus Tourn. ex L.

[FTEA]
Sapindaceae, Davies & B. Verdcourt. Flora of Tropical East Africa. 1998
- Morphology General Habit
- Trees
- Morphology Leaves
- Leaves usually rather pale green, pinnate; leaflets in 2–8 pairs, entire; rhachis with raised lines or sometimes winged
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers
- Flowers regular; sepals 5, 2 short and 3 larger, concave, imbricate; petals 5, with or without scales, clawed and hairy at base; disk complete, cupuliform, undulate and shallowly lobed, glabrous Flowers in terminal and axillary panicles containing both male and female flowers but one sex often predominating
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Androecium Stamens
- Stamens 8; filaments stout, with lower half hairy; anthers oblong-ovate, auriculate, subsessile in bud; staminodes similar but smaller
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Gynoecium Pistil
- Ovary 3-lobed, glabrous or hairy; style entire; ovary rudiment present in male, 3-lobed
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
- Fruit a 1–2(–3)-lobed drupe, the abortive mericarp(s) remaining at base.
Doubtfully present in:
French Guiana, Guyana
Native to:
Andaman Is., Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Arizona, Arkansas, Assam, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Cambodia, Cayman Is., Chad, China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Colombia, Colorado, Cook Is., Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, East Himalaya, Ecuador, El Salvador, Fiji, Florida, Georgia, Guatemala, Hainan, Haiti, Hawaii, Honduras, India, Jamaica, Japan, Jawa, Kansas, Kazan-retto, Korea, Laos, Leeward Is., Lesser Sunda Is., Louisiana, Malaya, Marquesas, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Mississippi, Missouri, Myanmar, Nansei-shoto, Nepal, New Caledonia, New Mexico, Nicaragua, Ogasawara-shoto, Oklahoma, Pakistan, Panamá, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Samoa, Society Is., South Carolina, Southwest Caribbean, Sri Lanka, Sumatera, Suriname, Taiwan, Texas, Thailand, Tonga, Trinidad-Tobago, Tuamotu, Venezuela, Vietnam, Wallis-Futuna Is., West Himalaya, Windward Is.
Introduced into:
Angola, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Comoros, Easter Is., Galápagos, Guinea-Bissau, Gulf of Guinea Is., Kenya, Mali, Mauritius, New Guinea, Philippines, Rodrigues, Tanzania, Uganda, Vanuatu, Venezuelan Antilles, Zaïre
- Sapindus chrysotrichus Gagnep.
- Sapindus delavayi (Franch.) Radlk.
- Sapindus drummondii Hook. & Arn.
- Sapindus emarginatus Vahl
- Sapindus lippoldii I.M.Turner
- Sapindus mukorossi Gaertn.
- Sapindus oahuensis Hillebr. ex Radlk.
- Sapindus rarak DC.
- Sapindus saponaria L.
- Sapindus sonlaensis H.M.Tam, N.K.Khoi, N.T.Cuong & T.B.Tran
- Sapindus tomentosus Kurz
- Sapindus trifoliatus L.
- Sapindus vitiensis A.Gray
Sapindus Tourn. ex L. appears in other Kew resources:
Date | Reference | Identified As | Barcode | Type Status | Has image? |
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s.coll. [Cat. no. s.n.], Assam | K001132821 | Yes | |||
s.coll. [Cat. no. s.n.], Nepal | K001132329 | Yes |
First published in Sp. Pl.: 367 (1753)
Accepted by
- Meena, S.L. (2012). A checklist of the vascular plants of Banaskantha district, Gujarat, India Nelumbo 54: 39-91.
Literature
Flora of Tropical East Africa
- L., Gen. Pl., ed. 5: 171 (1754)
- Radlk. in E.P. IV, 165: 630 (1932)
- Sp. Pl.: 367 (1753)
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