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Coates Palgrave, K. (revised and updated by Meg Coates Palgrave) (2002) Trees of Southern Africa 3rd edition. Struik, South Africa
Exell, A.W. (1966) Sapindaceae Flora Zambesiaca 2(2)
Vollesen, K. (1989) Sapindaceae Flora of Ethiopia 3
Trees, shrubs or climbers, sometimes with tendrils (Cardiospermum and Paullinia). Stipules 0 (but present in Cardiospermum). Leaves alternate, mostly compound, a few simple (Dodonaea and Pappea); rhachis sometimes winged. Inflorescence usually a thyrse but flowers sometimes fasciculate. Sepals usually 4-5, often ± connate. Petals 0-5. Disk present (0 in Dodonaea). Stamens usually 5-12, reduced, rarely 0 in female flowers. Ovary of 2-8 carpels. Style 1. Fruit a capsule or fleshy and indehiscent or composed of 1 or more indehiscent cocci. Seeds often with a fleshy arillode. Worldwide: 131 genera and 1,450 species, tropical and warm areas with a few in temperate zones. Zimbabwe: 11 cultivated genera and 12 cultivated taxa. |
No image of a cultivated species but there is an image of a native or naturalised species |
| Genus | Content |
| Atalaya Blume | Description |
| Cardiospermum L. | Description |
| Cupaniopsis Radlk. | Description |
| Dodonaea Mill. | Description |
| Filicium Thwaites ex Benth. | Description |
| Koelreuteria Laxm. | Description |
| Lepisanthes Blume | Description |
| Litchi Sonn. | Description |
| Melicoccus P. Browne | |
| Paullinia L. | Description, Image |
| Sapindus L. | Description, Image |
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