Keyed Out #080 — Koelreuteria paniculata

Question 1

Each small flower is faintly one-sided rather than evenly radial, with a pair of tiny scales at the base of every {petal} and a fleshy {nectary} ring set outside the eight {stamens}.

Accepted Answer

soapberry family

Question 2

The long, many-parted leaves are borne singly along the twig, one at each node, never two facing each other.

Accepted Answer

Sapindaceae

Question 3

After flowering, the crown hangs with inflated, papery, three-chambered lanterns that dry to a hollow husk and split into three valves.

Accepted Answer

Koelreuteria

Question 4

In the heat of high summer it lifts a broad, much-branched flower cluster 12 to 15 inches (30 to 38 cm) long clear of the foliage at the ends of woody shoots.

Accepted Answer

Koelreuteria

Question 5

Its leaves divide once into {leaflets} that are irregularly cut, coarsely toothed and sometimes lobed almost to the midrib, with only the lowest pair occasionally divided a second time.

Accepted Answer

Koelreuteria paniculata

Question 6

Crushed foliage gives off no rank smell, and the {leaflets} carry no raised {glands} where the blade meets its stalk, the teeth running evenly around the whole margin.

Accepted Answer

Koelreuteria paniculata