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Distribution: A family of 150 genera with c. 2 000 species, chiefly tropical and subtropical,
best represented in Asia and America; 30 genera with the Flora of Australia publication
listing c. 190 species in Australia.
Description: The species in this family are trees, shrubs or climbers, rarely herbaceous,
dioecious, monoecious, or polygamo-dioecious, rarely polygamous; some with saponin
in bark, leaves and pericarp.
For more details regarding the description of species within this family please see:
https://profiles.ala.org.au/opus/foa/profile/Sapindaceae
Pollen Morphology: See the specific descriptions in the different genus taxa within
this family.
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