STAPHYLEA 215 



Sapindales Maple Order 

 Staphyleaceae Bladder-nut Family 



Shrubs or trees with mostly opposite, odd-pinnate or 3-foliate leaves 

 with stipules; flowers perfect, in terminal or axillary clusters, sepals 5, 

 petals 5, stamens 5, alternate with the petals, inserted along the edge of 

 the conspicuous disk; fruit a bladdery capsule (in our species), seeds soli- 

 tary or few in each cavity of the ovary. 



Staphylea Linne 1753 Bladdernut 

 (Gr. s t a p h y 1 e, cluster) 



Shrubs with opposite 3-foliate or pinnate leaves; flowers whitish, 

 in drooping terminal racemes or panicles; calyx deeply 5-parted, the lobes 



