Sarcopteryx Radlk.

Genus

Angiosperms > Sapindales > Sapindaceae

Characteristics

Shrub to tree. Indumentum of simple solitary hairs and red glandular hairs only. Branchlets smooth to slightly grooved. Leaves paripinnate, 1-7-jugate, pseudo-stipules absent, not winged; petiolules usually present. Leaflets: base attenuate; margin entire; both surfaces smooth; on lower surface domatia at most shallow pockets in axils of nerves, small red glands present; venation raised; nerves especially towards the apex marginally looped; veins reticulate. Inflorescences usually in the upper leaf axils and pseudoterminal, usually only with a few branches; cymules cincinnate (to dichasial). Flowers apparently bisexual but presumably functionally male or female. Sepals 5, equal in size, basally connate. Petalr 5, clawed, margin sometimes auriculate near base, outside and inside sericeous at base; scales 2, densely pilose along outer margin, apex, and inner surface; crest a small enation or well developed, clavate and glabrous. Disc uninterrupted. Stamens 8; filaments especially basally pilose; anthers dehiscence latrorse, usually papillate, usually slightly pilose, connective usually appendaged. Pistil: ovary 3-(or 4-)locular, densely hirsute; style and stigma triangular, not lobed, grooved, elongating in fruit. Fruits an obcordate loculicidally dehiscent capsule, smooth, somewhat lobed, slightly winged, wings narrow at most, stipe usually present; inside glabrous except for a hair tuft below the placenta and hidden by the arilloid appendage (absent in S. caudata) mesocarp woody in stipe iind lower part of seed chambers. Arillode completely covering seed, usually with a straight, sometimes a curled appendage (S. caudatd). Seeds obovoid; hilum triangular, relatively large.
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Trees with saponin in bark, twigs and leaves. Branchlets hairy towards apex. Leaves paripinnate; leaflets opposite or alternate, entire; lower surface with clavate glands, and raised lateral veins. Inflorescence axillary, polygamo-monoecious, panicle-like or raceme-like. Flowers regular, pedicellate. Calyx cupular, lobes 5, imbricate. Petals 5, shortly clawed, with 2 broad, villous, crested scales. Disc complete, glabrous. Stamens 7 or 8; filaments filiform, hairy. Ovary 3-locular, ovule 1 per locule; style filiform, persistent. Fruit obovoid or broadly ellipsoidal, angled, sometimes winged, cuspidate, 3-locular, loculicidally dehiscent; valves slightly fleshy, glabrous inside, glabrous or hairy outside. Seed usually ellipsoidal; aril thin, enclosing seed.
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Hardiness (USDA) 8-12

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