Dipteronia sinensis

Dipteronia sinensis is a plant species in the genus Dipteronia, endemic to mainland China, and regarded in the soapberry family Sapindaceae sensu lato after Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (APG I 1998, APG II 2003) and more recently (Harrington et al. 2005)[2]), or traditionally by several authors in Aceraceae, related to the maples.

Dipteronia sinensis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Sapindales
Family: Sapindaceae
Genus: Dipteronia
Species:
D. sinensis
Binomial name
Dipteronia sinensis

Dipteronia sinensis is a deciduous flowering shrub or small tree, reaching 10โ€“15 m tall. The leaf arrangement is opposite and pinnate. The inflorescences are paniculate, terminal or axillary. The flowers have five sepals and petals; staminate flowers have eight stamens, and bisexual flowers have a two-celled ovary. The fruit is a rounded samara containing two compressed nutlets, flat, encircled by a broad wing which turns from light green to red with ripening.

Notes

  1. Crowley, D.; Barstow, M.; Rivers, M.C. (2017). "Dipteronia sinensis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2017: e.T32401A2817860. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-3.RLTS.T32401A2817860.en. Retrieved 20 November 2021.
  2. Harrington, M. G., K. J. Edwards, S. A. Johnson, M. W. Chase, and P. A. Gadek. 2005. Phylogenetic inference in Sapindaceae sensu lato using plastid matK and rbcL DNA sequences. Systematic Botany 30: 366-382 (abstract here).

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