Soapberries, Cashews, Mahoganies, and Allies
Sapindales
Sapindales is an order of flowering plants that diversified in the mid-Cretaceous. Well-known members of Sapindales include citrus; maples, sumac, horse-chestnuts, lychees and rambutans; mangos and cashews; frankincense and myrrh; mahogany neem and also pistachio.
The APG III system of 2009 includes it in the clade malvids (in rosids, in eudicots) with the following nine families:
9 branches of this order, most-observed first
soapberry family
familySapindaceae
Cashew Family
familyAnacardiaceae
citrus family
familyRutaceae
mahogany family
familyMeliaceae
Quassia Family
familySimaroubaceae
Torchwoods
familyBurseraceae
nitre bush family
familyNitrariaceae
kirkia family
familyKirkiaceae
Biebersteinia Family
familyBiebersteiniaceae
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Sapindales in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 47729.