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Support the Flora of the Southeastern US

2024 has been a banner year for making the best flora we can imagine. We've created:
With financial support from people like you, we are aiming even higher in 2025. Together we can accomplish all this: Vote on our 2025 priorities
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  • Professional graphic keys (polyclaves) to individual families/genera vote
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Key to Sapindus

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1 Rachis broadly winged (> 1 mm wide on each side); petals unappendaged; leaflet apices often rounded or merely acute; [s. and c. peninsular FL]
1 Rachis unwinged; petals appendaged (with a densely hairy, bifid scale on the inner side); leaflet apices generally acuminate to long-acuminate; [either c. peninsular FL, s. GA, and se. SC, or MO, AR, and LA westawrds].
  2 Leaflets 10-16; fruits 10-13 mm in diameter; leaflets usually < 20 mm wide; [MO, AR, and LA westwards]
  2 Leaflets 6-12 (-14); fruits 13-21 mm in diameter; leaflets usually 20-50 mm wide; {FL, GA, and SC]