What is "staphylea"

Bladder \Blad"der\ (bl[a^]d"d[~e]r), n. [OE. bladder, bleddre, AS. bl[=ae]dre, bl[=ae]ddre; akin to Icel. bla[eth]ra, SW. bl["a]ddra, Dan. bl[ae]re, D. blaar, OHG. bl[=a]tara the bladder in the body of animals, G. blatter blister, bustule; all fr. the same root as AS. bl[=a]wan, E. blow, to puff. See Blow to puff.]

1. (Anat.) A bag or sac in animals, which serves as the receptacle of some fluid; as, the urinary bladder; the gall bladder; -- applied especially to the urinary bladder, either within the animal, or when taken out and inflated with air.

2. Any vesicle or blister, especially if filled with air, or a thin, watery fluid.

3. (Bot.) A distended, membranaceous pericarp.

4. Anything inflated, empty, or unsound. ``To swim with bladders of philosophy.''
   --Rochester.

   Bladder nut, or Bladder tree (Bot.), a genus of plants ( Staphylea) with bladderlike seed pods.

   Bladder pod (Bot.), a genus of low herbs ( Vesicaria) with inflated seed pods.

   Bladdor senna (Bot.), a genus of shrubs ( Colutea), with membranaceous, inflated pods.

   Bladder worm (Zo["o]l.), the larva of any species of tapeworm ( T[ae]nia), found in the flesh or other parts of animals. See Measle, Cysticercus.

   Bladder wrack (Bot.), the common black rock weed of the seacoast ( Fucus nodosus and Fucus vesiculosus) -- called also bladder tangle. See Wrack.

Staphylea, or bladdernut, is a small genus of 10 or 11 species of flowering plants in the family Staphyleaceae, native to temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere. The highest species diversity is in China, where four species occur.

They are large shrubs, occasionally small trees, growing to 2-5 m tall. The leaves are deciduous, arranged in opposite pairs, and pinnate, usually with three leaflets, but 3-7 in S. pinnata and 3-5 in S. colchica. The flowers are produced in drooping terminal panicles 5-10 cm long, with 5-15 flowers on each panicle; the individual flowers are about 1 cm long, with the five sepals and petals similar in size and in their white or pale pink colour. The fruit is an inflated papery two- or three-lobed capsule 3-10 cm long, containing a few small nut-like seeds.

• Staphylea bolanderi (Sierra bladdernut). Western North America.
• Staphylea bumalda (Japanese bladdernut). Eastern Asia.
• Staphylea colchica (Colchis bladdernut, jonjoli). Eastern Europe.
• Staphylea emodi (Himalayan bladdernut). Himalaya.
• Staphylea forrestii. China.
• Staphylea holocarpa. China.
• Staphylea pinnata (European bladdernut). Europe.
• Staphylea pringlei. Mexico.
• Staphylea shweliensis. China.
• Staphylea trifolia (American bladdernut). Eastern North America.

Some botanists include the closely related genus Turpinia in Staphylea.