Dipteronia sinensis
| Dipteronia sinensis | |
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| Dipteronia sinensis | |
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Eudicots |
| (unranked): | Rosids |
| Order: | Sapindales |
| Family: | Sapindaceae |
| Subfamily: | Hippocastanoideae |
| Genus: | Dipteronia |
| Species: | Dipteronia sinensis Oliv. |
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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 is a deciduous flowering shrub or small tree, reaching 10–15 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
- ↑ World Conservation Monitoring Centre (1998). "Dipteronia sinensis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 2 April 2012.
- ↑ 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).
References
- USDA Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN) entry
- Li Shan, Qian Zengqiang, Cai Yuliang, and Zhao Guifang, "A comparison of the genetic diversity in Dipteronia sinensis Oliv. and Dipteronia dyeriana Henry", Frontiers of Biology in China, Volume 1, Number 4 / December, 2006, pages 381-388. ISSN 1673-3509 (Print), 1673-3622 (Online).
- Chinese Academy of Sciences. 1959–. Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae.
- Murray, A. E. 1970. A monograph of the Aceraceae. Ph.D. diss., Pennsylvania State Univ.