Botany: trees, shrubs, woody; flowers often imperfect, intrastaminal disk, nectar disk; leaves alternate, odd-pinnately compound; ovary superior, connate.
Content: silica; ethereal oils.
TaxonomyIn the
Apg3 classification Sapindales is one of the Orders of the Subclass
Malvidae.
Sapindales includes 6 big Families and 3 small ones.
Sapindales has been recognised long as an Order with a stabile group of families in general.
In the first version of the
Plant theory it is placed in
Phase 4. Now
Sapindales has been split in
Rutales in
Phase 4 and
Sapindales in
Phase 5.
Sapindales retains the families
Sapindaceae,
Simaroubaceae and
Meliaceae.
Sapindaceae is split in 5 Subfamilies
Subphases1.
Dodonaeoideae, Subfamily of
Sapindaceae: they start afresh every time to show their uniqueness.
2.
Paullinioideae Subfamily of
Sapindaceae: they feel not seen and of minor position in society.
3.
Litchioideae Subfamily of
Sapindaceae: they feel they have to please and adapt in society.
4. SHippocastanaceae Subfamily of
Sapindaceae: the rules of society and culture are strong and too rigid.
5. SCupanoideae Subfamily of
Sapindaceae: they feel limited by society, want to show their uniqueness more.
6.
Simaroubaceae: they feel the victim of the society, the rigidity of it.
7.
Meliaceae: they feel an outcast because they do not accept the rules of society.
FamiliesBiebersteiniaceae has one genus Biebersteinia and is the first diverging lineage in
Sapindales and can probably be included in
Subphase 1 or 7; Central Asia; previously in
Geraniaceae.