Dipteronia sinensis

Dipteronia sinensis
Dipteronia sinensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Eudicots
(unranked):	Rosids
Order:	Sapindales
Family:	Sapindaceae
Subfamily:	Hippocastanoideae
Genus:	Dipteronia
Species:	Dipteronia sinensis Oliv.

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) ^[1]), 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

1. ^ 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.