Overview
Sapindales () is a for an order of flowering plants. Well-known members of Sapindales include citrus; maples, horse-chestnuts, lychees and rambutans; mangos and cashews; frankincense and myrrh; and mahogany.
The APG II system of 2003 includes it in the clade eurosids II (in rosids, in eudicots) including the following families:
- Anacardiaceae
- Biebersteiniaceae
- Burseraceae
- Kirkiaceae
- Meliaceae
- Nitrariaceae (+ Peganaceae and Tetradiclidaceae)
- Rutaceae
- Sapindaceae
- Simaroubaceae
(with "+ ..." = optional segregate of the preceding family)
The Cronquist system of 1981 used a somewhat different circumscription, including the following families:
- Staphyleaceae
- Melianthaceae
- Bretschneideraceae
- Akaniaceae
- Sapindaceae
- Hippocastanaceae
- Aceraceae
- Burseraceae
- Anacardiaceae
- Julianiaceae
- Simaroubaceae
- Cneoraceae
- Meliaceae
- Rutaceae
- Zygophyllaceae
The difference with the APG II system is not as large as may appear, as the plants in the families Aceraceae and Hippocastanaceae stay in this order at APG II (both included in family Sapindaceae). The species now comprising the family Nitrariaceae in APG II also belonged to this order in the Cronquist system as part of the family Zygophyllaceae, while those now in the family Kirkiaceae were present as part of the family Simaroubaceae.
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Taxonomy
The Order Rutales is further organized into finer groupings including:
- Suborder (2): Meliineae · Rutineae
- Family (10): Cneoraceae · Irvingiaceae · Kirkiaceae · Meliaceae · Ptaeroxylaceae · Rhabdodendraceae · Rutaceae · Simaroubaceae · Surianaceae · Tepuianthaceae
- Species: ZipcodeZoo has pages for 10,323 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in the Order Rutales.
Families
Cneoraceae
Irvingiaceae
Irvingiaceae is a family of , consisting of 20 species in 3 genera. [more]
Kirkiaceae
Meliaceae
The Meliaceae, or the Mahogany family, is a family of mostly trees and shrubs (and a few herbaceous plants) in the order Sapindales, [more]
Ptaeroxylaceae
Rhabdodendraceae
Rutaceae
Rutaceae, commonly known as the or citrus family, is a family of plants, usually placed in the order Sapindales. [more]
Simaroubaceae
The Simaroubaceae is a small, mostly tropical, family in the order . In recent decades it has been subject to much taxonomic debate, with several small families being split off. [more]
Surianaceae
Tepuianthaceae
At least 6 species and subspecies belong to the Family Tepuianthaceae.
More info about the Family Tepuianthaceae may be found here.
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