Medium-sized, broad-crowned tree to 10 m or so tall with furrowed bark. Leaves compound, alternate, to about 35 cm long. Leaflets 9-15, more or less opposite, ovate-oblong, 4-8 cm long, coarsely round-toothed and often lobed at the base, at least a few stalked, yellow in autumn. Flowers yellow in erect clusters, slightly fragrant; summer. Fruit a balloon-like capsule to 5 cm long with papery walls narrowed into a pointed tip.

K. bipinnata Franch. and K. elegans (Seem.) A.C. Sm. are occasionally grown in specialist collections.

N China, Korea.

ACT: Ainslie (Lang St). VIC: Brighton (Technical School); Melbourne (Royal Bot. Gds, Northern Border); Parkville (Melbourne University Botany Department Systems Garden); St Kilda (Bot. Gds).

 

Source: Spencer, R. (2002). Sapindaceae. In: Spencer, R.. Horticultural Flora of South-eastern Australia. Volume 3. Flowering plants. Dicotyledons. Part 2. The identification of garden and cultivated plants. University of New South Wales Press.