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

[FTEA]
Sapindaceae, Davies & B. Verdcourt. Flora of Tropical East Africa. 1998
- Morphology General Habit
- Tree to 25 m.; branchlets purplish brown, lenticellate.
- Morphology Leaves
- Leaves 15–25(–35) cm. long; leaflets subopposite, in (1–)3(–4) pairs, elliptic-oblong to elliptic-lanceolate or obovate, (5–)10–20 cm. long, (3–)5.5–11 cm. wide, emarginate to ± acuminate at the apex, acute to truncate or rounded at the base, glabrous save for some pubescence on midrib above and beneath; lateral nerves in 8–15 pairs.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
- Panicles 6–15 cm. long, with spreading branches, velvety brown-pubescent; sepals elliptic, 4 mm. long, silky tomentellous outside; petals narrowly rhomboid, 4 mm. long, the dorsal surface densely long-white-pubescent.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Gynoecium Ovary
- Ovary pubescent; disk hairy.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
- Fruit brown, 1.6–2.2 cm. wide, with (1–)3 subglobose hairy lobes.
- Figures
- Fig. 23/4.
- Habitat
- Probably not naturalised anywhere; ± 0–1200 m.
- Distribution
- K7 T6 T8 U3 native of India now widely cultivated
Native to:
Andaman Is., Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
Introduced into:
Kenya, Rodrigues, Tanzania, Trinidad-Tobago, Uganda
Sapindus trifoliatus L. appears in other Kew resources:
Date | Reference | Identified As | Barcode | Type Status | Has image? |
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Feb 1, 2009 | Middleton, D.J. et al. [1525], Thailand | K000575726 | No | ||
Keay, R.W.J. [28667], Cameroon | K000093227 | No | |||
s.coll. [Cat. no. 8038] | Sapindus laurifolius | K001128813 | Yes | ||
s.coll. [Cat. no. 8038] | Sapindus laurifolius | K001128814 | Yes |
First published in Sp. Pl.: 367 (1753)
Accepted by
- Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. & Strong, M.T. (2012). Catalogue of seed plants of the West Indies Smithsonian Contributions to Botany 98: 1-1192.
- Baksh-Comeau, Y., Maharaj, S.S., Adams, C.D., Harris, S.A., Filer, D.L. & Hawthorne, W.D. (2016). An annotated checklist of the vascular plants of Trinidad and Tobago with analysis of vegetation types and botanical 'hotspots' Phytotaxa 250: 1-431.
- Bosser, J. & al. (eds.) (1997). Flore des Mascareignes 69: 79-1. IRD Éditions, MSIRI, RBG-Kew, Paris.
- Dassanayake (ed.) (1998). A Revised Handbook to the Flora of Ceylon 12: 1-390. Oxford & IBH Publishing Co. PVT. LTD., New Delhi, Calcutta.
- Davies, F.G. & Verdcourt, B. (1998). Flora of Tropical East Africa, Dodonaea: 1-108.
- Kress, W.J., DeFilipps, R.A., Farr, E. & Kyi, D.Y.Y. (2003). A Checklist of the Trees, Shrubs, Herbs and Climbers of Myanmar Contributions from the United States National Herbarium 45: 1-590. Smithsonian Institution.
- Meena, S.L. (2012). A checklist of the vascular plants of Banaskantha district, Gujarat, India Nelumbo 54: 39-91.
- Mostaph, M.K. & Uddin, S.B. (2013). Dictionary of plant names of Bangladesh, Vasc. Pl.: 1-434. Janokalyan Prokashani, Chittagong, Bangladesh.
- Nasi, E. & Ali, S.I. (eds) (1973). Sapindaceae Flora of West Pakistan 39: 1-10.
- Nasir, E. & Ali, S.I. (eds.) (1970-1995). Flora of West Pakistan 1-131.
Literature
Kew Backbone Distributions
- Baksh-Comeau, Y., Maharaj, S.S., Adams, C.D., Harris, S.A., Filer, D.L. & Hawthorne, W.D. (2016). An annotated checklist of the vascular plants of Trinidad and Tobago with analysis of vegetation types and botanical 'hotspots' Phytotaxa 250: 1-431.
- Bosser, J. & al. (eds.) (1997). Flore des Mascareignes 69: 79-1. IRD Éditions, MSIRI, RBG-Kew, Paris.
- Dassanayake (ed.) (1998). A Revised Handbook to the Flora of Ceylon 12: 1-390. Oxford & IBH Publishing Co. PVT. LTD., New Delhi, Calcutta.
- Davies, F.G. & Verdcourt, B. (1998). Flora of Tropical East Africa, Dodonaea: 1-108.
- Kress, W.J., DeFilipps, R.A., Farr, E. & Kyi, D.Y.Y. (2003). A Checklist of the Trees, Shrubs, Herbs and Climbers of Myanmar Contributions from the United States National Herbarium 45: 1-590. Smithsonian Institution.
- Meena, S.L. (2012). A checklist of the vascular plants of Banaskantha district, Gujarat, India Nelumbo 54: 39-91.
- Mostaph, M.K. & Uddin, S.B. (2013). Dictionary of plant names of Bangladesh, Vasc. Pl.: 1-434. Janokalyan Prokashani, Chittagong, Bangladesh.
- Nasir, E. & Ali, S.I. (eds.) (1970-1995). Flora of West Pakistan 1-131.
- Pandey, R.P. & Dilwakar, P.G. (2008). An integrated check-list flora of Andaman and Nicobar islands, India Journal of Economic and Taxonomic Botany 32: 403-500.
Flora of Tropical East Africa
- Burkill, Dict. Econ. Prod. Malay Pen.: 1959 (1935).
- Dale, Introd. Trees Uganda: 64 (1953).
- J.P.M. Brenan, Check-lists of the Forest Trees and Shrubs of the British Empire no. 5, part II, Tanganyika Territory p. 561 (1949).
- L., Sp. Pl.: 367 (1753), as ‘ trifoliata ’.
- Radlk. in A. Engler, Das Pflanzenreich IV, 165: 656 (1932).
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