Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Sapindales Bercht. & J.Presl
Family
Sapindaceae
 Subordinate Taxa
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Alectryon Gaertn., Fruct. Sem. Pl. 217, t. 46 (1788)
 Description

Fls perfect to unisexual in panicles; calyx 4–5-lobed, hairy within; petals 0; disk 8-lobed; stamens 5–8. Ovary obliquely obcordate, compressed, 1-celled; style short, stigma 2–3-lobed to simple; ovule solitary. Capsule ± woody, subglobose, crested; seeds arillate, cots spirally coiled. Trees with alt., pinnate, exstipulate lvs.

[From: Allan (1961) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 1.]

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Non-endemic)
Number of species in New Zealand within Alectryon Gaertn.
CategoryNumber
Indigenous (Endemic)1
Total1
 Bibliography
Gaertner, J. 1788: De Fructibus et Seminibus Plantarum. Vol. 1. Stuttgart.
Mabberley, D.J. 2008: Mabberley's plant book, a portable dictionary of plants, their classification and uses. Edition 3. Cambridge University Press.