e-Key v3 - Haplocoelum
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Sapindaceae - Haplocoelum Radlk.

Description :

  • Trees or shrubs, dioecious or flowers sometimes spuriously polygamous
  • Leaves paripinnate; leaflets up to 14-jugate
  • Flowers in dense, axillary clusters
  • Sepals 5 or 6
  • Petals 0
  • Disc pulvinate
  • Stamens 5 or 6, arising in centre of disc
  • Ovary 3-locular, 3-angled; with a single ovule in each locule
  • Fruit a spherical, 1-seeded, pink to red berry
  • Seeds erect, baccate; arillode dorsally split and nearly covering seed

Nomenclature:

  • Haplocoelum Radlk.
    • Radlkofer: 336 (1878)
    • Exell: 530 (1966)

Distribution & Notes:

  • Global : Species ± 7, Africa and Madagascar
  • Southern Africa : Species 1: Haplocoelum gallense (Engl.) Radlk.; subtropical bush of KwaZulu-Natal

References:

  • EXELL, A.W. 1966. Sapindaceae . Flora zambesiaca 2, 2
  • RADLKOFER, L. 1878. Sitzungsberichte der Königl. Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu München 8