Sapindus rarak

SPECIES

1. KingdomPlantae
2. PhylumTracheophyta
3. ClassMagnoliopsida
4. OrderSapindales
5. FamilySapindaceae

Native toAssam, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Chad, East Himalaya, India, Jawa, Laos, Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, Myanmar, Sri Lanka

Observations recorded283

Trees, deciduous, ca. 20 m tall. Branches strong, stout, grooved, grayish yellow pubescent when young. Leaves with petiole 25-40 cm or longer, axis terete, often red when dry; leaflets 7-12 pairs, subopposite; petiolules 5-8 mm; blades adaxially slightly shiny, oblong or ovate-lanceolate, sometimes falcate, 7-13 × 1.5-4 cm, usually thinly papery, glabrous or densely appressed villous, lateral veins very dense, slender, slightly prominent on both surfaces, base obtuse, apex acute or sometimes nearly acuminate. Inflorescences terminal, erect, tower-shaped, main rachis deeply grooved, shortly golden tomentose. Flowers zygomorphic, slightly large; buds broadly ovoid. Pedicels ca. 1.5 mm. Sepals 5, oblong or broadly ovate, larger ones ca. 3 mm, subleathery, abaxially golden sericeous-tomentose. Petals 4, oblanceolate, ca. 3.8 mm, tomentose; scales large, nearly as long as 2/3 of petals, margin densely villous. Disk semilunar, thick. Filaments densely shortly hispid. Fertile schizocarps dark red or orange-red, globose, ca. 2.5 cm in diam. Fl. summer, fr. early autumn.

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🔬Museum specimens

Specimen records

139

With media

97

Family

Sapindaceae

Collections

SBBG, MICH, SD, NY, CM, A

Recorded in

United States, India, Myanmar, China, Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, Paraguay

Wikidata facts

Instance of

taxon

Parent taxon

Sapindus

Has use

wood

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