SAPINDACEAE

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1981, Flora Europaea. Volume 2. Rosaceae to Umbelliferae, Cambridge University Press : 239

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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.293200

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scientific name

SAPINDACEAE
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Trees, shrubs, woody climbers or rarely (as in the only European representative) herbs, with alternate, usually compound leaves. Flowers hermaphrodite, hypogynous, usually small. Sepals and petals 3-5, free; stamens 8, deflexed. Ovary superior, 3-locular, with one seed in each loculus.

Koelreuteria paniculata Laxm., Novi Comment. Acad. Sci. Petrop. 16: 561 (1772), a graceful tree with pinnate leaves, yellow flowers and an inflated capsule, native to E. Asia, is widely planted in S. Europe in parks and by roadsides, and is perhaps locally naturalized in E. Romania and W. Ukraine.

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