Everything about Hippocastanaceae totally explained
The
Hippocastanaceae is a small family of
trees and
shrubs. Its most widespread genus is
Aesculus (the horse-chestnuts and buckeyes, syn.
Pavia). However, the American genus
Billia and the Chinese genus
Handeliodendron are also sometimes included in this family. A feature of the family is the palmate compound leaves.
Members of this family are closely related to the large, mostly tropical family
Sapindaceae, and some
systems of plant taxonomy include the members of the Hippocastanaceae, along with members of the Aceraceae, in an enlarged family Sapindaceae.
Recent
molecular phylogenetic research (Harrington et al. 2005) has shown that while both Aceraceae and Hippocastanaceae are
monophyletic in themselves, their removal from Sapindaceae
sensu lato would leave Sapindaceae
sensu stricto as a
paraphyletic group, particularly with reference to the genus
Xanthoceras.
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