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| | HIPPOCASTANACEAE [Draft] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13) |
 | | Three genera and 15 species: Asia (Himalayas to Japan), SE Europe, North America, also Central and South America (Billia); two genera (one endemic) and five species (two endemic, two introduced) in China. |
 | | The Hippocastanaceae, together with the Aceraceae, have recently been treated within the Sapindaceae by some authors, e.g., Stevens, Angiosperm Phylogeny Website (2001 onwards). |
 | | It shares many morphological characters with Aesculus and Billia and is better placed in the Hippocastanaceae. |
| flora.huh.harvard.edu /china/mss/volume12/Hippocastanaceae-MO_reviewing.htm (2639 words) |
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