Meliaceae - Wikipedia
WEBMeliaceae, the mahogany family, is a flowering plant family of mostly trees and shrubs (and a few herbaceous plants, mangroves) in the order Sapindales. They are characterised by alternate, usually pinnate leaves without stipules , and by syncarpous, [ 2 ] apparently bisexual (but actually mostly cryptically unisexual) flowers borne in panicles ...
Meliaceae | Tropical Trees, Evergreen, Mahogany | Britannica
WEBMeliaceae, the mahogany family of flowering plants (order Sapindales), comprising 51 genera and about 575 species of trees and (rarely) shrubs, native to tropical and subtropical regions.Most members of the family have large compound leaves, with the leaflets arranged in the form of a feather, and branched flower clusters. The fruit is fleshy and coloured or …
Category:Meliaceae - Wikipedia
WEBCategory. : Meliaceae. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Meliaceae. The Meliaceae, or the mahogany family, is a flowering plant family of mostly trees and shrubs (and a few herbaceous plants, mangroves) in the order Sapindales. The family includes about 50 genera and 550 species.
Melia (plant) - Wikipedia
WEBMelia is a genus of flowering trees in the family Meliaceae. [3] The name is derived from μελία, the Greek name used by Theophrastus (c. 371 – c. 287 BC) for Fraxinus ornus, [4] which has similar leaves. [5] Species. As of March 2023, Plants of the World Online accepted three species: [2]
Sapindales - Tropical Trees, Soapberry Family, Evergreen
WEBMany tropical species of the family Meliaceae are important timber trees. The best known, Swietenia mahagoni (West Indian mahogany), is one of the world’s most valuable woods. Swietenia macrophylla (Honduras mahogany), from Mexico to Bolivia, is also well known. Other valuable timbers of Meliaceae from the American tropics are derived from species …
Meliaceae - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
WEBMeliaceae is a family of dicotyledonous plants in order Sapindales, most of which have spirally pinnate leaves. The family includes about 50 genera and 550 species, with a pantropical distribution; one genus (Toona) extends north into temperate China and south into southeast Australia, and another (Melia) nearly as far north.
Meliaceae - Wikiwand
WEBMeliaceae, the mahogany family, is a flowering plant family of mostly trees and shrubs (and a few herbaceous plants, mangroves) in the order Sapindales. Quick Facts Scientific classification, Subfamilies ...
American Journal of Botany - Botanical Society of America
WEBJan 5, 2020 · The mahogany family, Meliaceae (Sapindales) comprises 702 species within 53 genera of trees and shrubs (Koenen et al., 2015), many of which are highly valuable timbers such as Swietenia (mahogany) Jacq. and Cedrela P. Browne in the Neotropics, as well as Khaya Juss and Entandrophragma C. DC. in Africa. In addition, …
Meliaceae - SpringerLink
WEBJan 1, 2010 · Meliaceae also differ from the closely allied Rutaceae in both not accumulating large amounts of steam-volatile phenylpropanoids in their essential oils and in the absence of family-specific alkaloids. In Meliaceae true saponins are rare, but saponin-like glycosides are common.
Meliaceae - SpringerLink
WEBMay 3, 2023 · Meliaceae are shown as sister to Simaroubaceae with moderate support by Muellner-Riehl & al. (2016) and Sun & al. (2016), and shares some special chemical compounds with the closely related Rutaceae. Muellner-Riehl & al. (2016) found a clade age of 80 my (89.8–69.7), using a fossil-constrained molecular clock analysis, which is …