Author:
Qjure
Book:
Qjurious
Type:
Info
Chapter:
3-655.50.00
Sapindaceae
English: Soap berry family; Soapberry family.
Including: Aceraceae, Hippocastanaceae.
Members: ± 150 genera; ± 1900 species.
Region: tropical, subtropical, few subtemperate.Content: quebrachitol, cyclopropane amino acids, saponins.
DD: Carbon, Silicon; Oxygen, Sulphur, Silver series.
Taxonomy
Sapindaceae is one of the main Families in the Sapindales in the Apg3 classification.
In the Plant theory Sapindaceae is placed in Subphase 4.
Botany
Trees; woody; need manganese.
Leaves: composite; leaflets subopposite, terminal rachis tip;petiole base swollen.
Flowers: often hairy inside; nectary extrastaminal; stamens 8 or less, hairy; ovules sessile; embryo curved; filaments pubescent or papillose; petals appendaged..
Seeds: testa vascularized, radicle in pocket formed by testa.