特徵描述
作者
CHEN, CHING-HSIA
型態特徵
Trees, shrubs, vines or rarely herbs. Leaves usually alternate, pinnately or palmately compound, rare simple; stipules none or in some climbing species present. Flower usually small, unisexual or bisexual, in racemes, panicles or corymbs, actinomorphic or commonly zygomorphic; calyx 4–5, imbricate or valvate sepals; petals 4–5 or wanting, often with hairs or scales at the base inside; hypogynous discs well developed, situated between petals and stamens; stamens usually 8–10, the filaments distinct or united at base; ovary superior, 2–4-celled, with one or more ovules in each cell; placentation axile or parietal, the style simple or divided. Fruit various, drupaceous or capsular, entire or lobed, sometimes winged. Seeds often arillate globose or compressed, albuminous or exalbuminous.
屬
About 150 genera and over 1,500 species, of wide distribution in the tropics and warm region.
參考文獻
Sapindus 無患子屬
作者
CHEN, CHING-HSIA
型態特徵
Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate or subverticillate, estipulate, usually paripinnate; leaflets coriaceous, commonly entire. Inflorescence terminal or axillary. Flowers polygamous, regular; sepals 4–5, imbricate in two rows; petals 4–5, with or without scales; disc complete, annular, fleshy; stamens usually 8–10, inserted within the disc; filaments usually pilose; anthers versatile; ovary entire or 2–4-lobed; ovules solitary. Fruit fleshy or coriaceous, 1–2-coccous; cocci oblong or globose, indehiscent. Seeds with a crustaceous or membranaceous testa.
