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MeliaceaeSee text The Meliaceae, or the Mahogany family, is a flowering plant family of mostly tropical trees and shrubs in the order Sapindales, characterised by alternate, usually pinnate leaves without stipules and by syncarpous, usually bisexual flowers borne in panicles, cymes, spikes, or clusters. Many species are deciduous, either in the dry season or in winter, but some are evergreen. The family includes about 50 genera and 550 species. Distribution Pantropical; one genus (Toona) extends north into temperate China and south into southeast Australia, and another (Melia) nearly as far north. Uses Oil, soap-making, insecticides, highly prized wood (mahogany) Some economically important species belong to this family: Genera - Aglaia
- Anthocarapa
- Aphanamixis
- Astrotrichilia
- Azadirachta
- Cabralea
- Calodecarya
- Capuronianthus
- Carapa
- Cedrela
- Chisocheton
- Chukrasia
- Cipadessa
- Dysoxylum
- Ekebergia
- Entandophragma
- Guarea
- Heckeldora
- Humbertioturraea
- Khaya
- Lansium
- Lepidotrichilia
- Lovoa
- Malleastrum
- Melia
- Munronia
- Naregamia
- Neobeguea
- Owenia
- Pseudobersama
- Pseudocarapa
- Pseudocedrela
- Pterorhachis
- Reinwardtiodendron
- Ruagea
- Sandoricum
- Schmardaea
- Soymida
- Sphaerosacme
- Swietenia
- Synoum
- Toona
- Trichilia
- Turraea
- Turraeanthus
- Vavaea
- Walsura
- Xylocarpus
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