PLANT: Herbaceous or suffruticose vines, monoecious, dioecious or polygamodioecious. LEAVES: biternate or trifoliolate, petiolate, with minute stipules. INFLORESCENCE: axillary, corymbose or racemose-paniculate, the peduncle on an axis just above two opposing tendrils. FLOWERS: white, yellow or light pink, slightly zygomorphic; sepals 4(-5), the 2 outer ones smaller; petals 4, with petaloid scales; nectar-disc zygomorphic with a gland opposite each of the two upper petals; stamens 8, unequal in length, the anthers sterile in pistillate flowers; ovary 3-loculed, rudimentary in staminate flowers; the placentation axile, with 1-ovule per locule, stigmas 3; style short. FRUIT: a membranaceous, inflated, 3-angled capsule. SEEDS: globose, black except for a light-colored, ovate, reniform to semicircular hilum. 2n = 20, 22 REFERENCES: Salywon, Andrew. 1999. Sapindaceae. Ariz. – Nev. Acad. Sci. 32(1).