Harpullia
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| Harpullia | |
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| Harpullia pendula: fruits, seeds and foliage (above), habit (below) | |
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Sapindales |
| Family: | Sapindaceae |
| Subfamily: | Dodonaeoideae |
| Genus: | Harpullia Roxb.[1] |
| Type species | |
| Harpullia cupanioides Roxb. | |
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Harpullia is a genus of about 27 species of small to medium-sized rainforest trees from the family Sapindaceae. They have a wide distribution ranging from India eastwards through Malesia, Papuasia and Australasia to the Pacific Islands. They grow naturally usually in or on the margins of rainforests or associated vegetation. Plants in the genus Harpullia are usually dioecious shrubs or trees covered with simple or star-shaped hairs. The leaves are paripinnate and the flowers are usually arranged in leaf axils, usually with 5 petals, 5 to 8 stamens and a 2-locular ovary. The fruit is a 2-lobed capsule.
Plants in the genus Harpullia are usually dioecious shrubs or trees, the foliage covered with simple and star-shaped hairs. The leaves are imparipinnate, the leaflets usually arranged alternately and mostly entire, the rhachis and petiole sometimes with a wing. The flowers usually have 5 overlapping sepals free from each other and 5 oblong petals either sessile or with auricles. There are 5 to 8 stamens and a 2-locular ovary with 1 or 2 ovules per locule. There are 1 or 2 shiny black more or less spherical or elliptic seeds per locule, usually with a large aril.[2]
