Hippocastanaceae's the name given to a small group of trees and shrubs, when this group's treated as a familiy. Its most widespread genus's 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's the palmate compound leaves. Members of this family are closely related to the large, mostly tropical family Sapindaceae, and some systems of plant taxonomy in… (
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