The soap tree plants (Sapindaceae) educate a plant family, which belongs within the Bedecktsamer (Magnoliophyta) to the rose something similar (Rosidae). Molecular-biological realizations resulted in that also the past maple plants (Aceraceae) and the (Hippocastanaceae), arranged in the Unterfamilie of the (Hippocastanoideae), into the family of the soap tree plants to be in-grouped to have. Is common all Sapindaceae the training Diskus at the reason of the bloom.

The family is arranged into 3 Unterfamilien (and a eingeordntete kind), and covered about 135 kinds with nearly 1600 kinds.

Spreading

The soap tree plants are particularly in the Tropics very richly developed. They settle the entire tropical South America, Africa and Asia, in addition also still Australia, New Zealand and Ozeanien. In the moderate zones of the Northern Hemisphere, into North America, Europe and Eastern Asia, only few kinds come before as for example the maples (Acer).

Systematics

One differentiates three Unterfamilien, the Sapindoideae with only one Samenanlage, the Hippocastanoideae with two Samenanlagen and the Dodonaeoideae with two to several Samenanlagen for each fruit knot subject according to the building of the Fruchtknotens.

Unterfamilien with a selection of kinds

• Hippocastanoideae, with 5 kinds and 130 kinds
  • Rosskastanien (Aesculus) - approx. 15 kinds; e.g.
    • Usual Rosskastanie, white Rosskastanie (Aesculus hippocastanum) - tree of the yearly 2005
  • Maples (Acer) - 110 kinds
  • Dipteronien (Dipteronia) - 2 kinds
  • Billia
• Sapindoideae
  • Allophylus - approx. 190 kinds
  • Akee fruit (Blighia)
  • Cupaniopsis - 60 kinds
  • Longan fruit (Dimocarpus)
  • Guioa - 65 kinds
  • Koelreuteria, 3 kinds, e.g.:
    • Blister ash (K. paniculata)
  • Litchi: Only kind Litschibaum (L. chinensis)
  • Mamoncillo fruit (Melicoccus)
  • Nephelium - approx. 35 kinds, e.g.:
    • RAM butane (N. lappaceum)
  • Paullinia - 195 kinds, e.g.:
    • (P. cupana)
    • Paullinia pinnata
  • Soap tree (Sapindus) - approx. 13 kinds
    • Wash nut tree (Sapindus mukorossi)
  • Serjania - 215 kinds

• Dodonaeoideae
  • Dodonaea - 70 kinds

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