Abstract
Trees, treelets, often pachycaul or, more rarely, shrubs or suckering shrublets, monopodial or sympodial, rarely with Terminalia branching (Vavaea), dioecious (though sometimes, at least, ‘male’ trees occasionally producing bisexual flowers), polygamous, monoecious or with all flowers bisexual; indumentum of simple, bifid or stellate hairs or stellate or peltate scales or sometimes mixtures of these, sometimes with small glands; buds naked or with scale-leaves. Leaves exstipulate (occasionally pseudostipules present), in spirals, rarely decussate, pinnate, sometimes with a terminal ‘bud’, i.e. pseudogemmula, trifoliolate, with a single blade (simple or unifoliolate) or rarely bipinnate (Melia); rachis very rarely winged; leaflets usually entire, rarely lobed or serrate (or spinous), sometimes with minute black glandular dots. Inflorescences axillary, supra-axillary, ramiflorous, cauliflorous to ground level or rarely epiphyllous (Chisocheton), thyrsoid, racemose or spicate, sometimes reduced to fascicles or solitary flowers.
Keywords
These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
Meliaceae Juss. (1789, ‘Melieae’), nom. cons.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution.
Buying options
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Learn about institutional subscriptionsSelected Bibliography
Braggins, J.E., Large, M.F., Mabberley, D.J. 1999. Sexual arrangements in kohekohe (Dysoxylum spectabile, Meliaceae). Telopea 8: 315–324.
Champagne, D.E., Koul, O., Idsman, M., Scudder, G.E., Towers, G.H.N. 1992. Biological activity of the limonoids from the Rutales. Phytochemistry 31: 3877–3894.
Cheek, M.R. 1989. The systematic seed anatomy of the Meliaceae. D. Phil. Thesis, Bodleian Library, Oxford.
Cheek, M.R. 1992. The wood anatomy of Pseudobersama mossambicensis and Trichilia capitata (Meliaceae) compared. Kew Bull. 47: 753–758.
Cheek, M.R. 1996. The identity of Naregamia Wight & Arn. (Meliaceae). Kew Bull. 51: 716.
Cheng, Y.-M., Ferguson, D.K., Li, C.-S., Jiang, X.-M., Wang, Y.-F. 2006. Cedreloxylon cristalliferum, a new record of angiosperm wood of Pliocene age from Yunnan, China. IAWA J. 27: 145–152.
Fisher, J. B., Rutishauser, R. 1990. Leaves and epiphyllous shoots in Chisocheton (Meliaceae): a continuum of woody leaf and stem axes. Can. J. Bot. 68: 2316–2328.
Fraser, L.-A, Mulholland, D.A., Taylor, D.A.H. 1995. The chemotaxonomic significance of the limonoid, nymania-1, in Turraea obtusifolia. S. Afr. J. Bot. 61: 281–282.
Gregory, M., Poole, I., Wheeler, E.A. 2009. Meliaceae. IAWA J., Suppl. 6: 99–101.
Hallé, F., Oldeman, R.A.A. 1970. Essai sur l’architecture et la dynamique de croissance des arbres tropicaux. Paris: Masson.
Harms, H. 1940. Meliaceae. In: Engler, A., Prantl, K., Die natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien, ed. 2, 19b I: 1–172. Leipzig: W. Engelmann.
Khosla, P.K., Styles, B.T. 1975. Karyological studies and chromosomal evolution in Meliaceae. Silvae Genet. 24: 75–83.
Kribs, D.A. 1930. Comparative anatomy of the woods of the Meliaceae. Am. J. Bot. 17: 724–738.
Leroy, J.-F. 1976. Essais de taxonomic syncrétique 1. Etude sur les Meliaceae de Madagascar. Adansonia II, 16: 167–203.
Mabberley, D.J. 1979. The species of Chisocheton (Meliaceae). Bull. Br. Mus. Nat. Hist. Bot. 6: 301–386.
Mabberley, D.J. 1988. Meliaceae. In: Morat, P., MacKee, H.S. (eds.) Flore de la Nouvelle-Calédonie et Dépendances 15, pp. 17–89.
Mabberley, D.J. 1995. Meliaceae [Aglaia by C.M. Pannell]. In: Dassanayake, M.D. (ed.) Revised Handbook of the Flora of Ceylon 9, pp. 228–300.
Mabberley, D.J., Pannell, C.M., Sing, A.M. 1995. Meliaceae. Flora Malesiana 12: 1–407.
Muellner, A.N., Mabberley, D.J. 2008. Phylogenetic position and taxonomic disposition of Turraea breviflora (Meliaceae), a hitherto enigmatic species. Blumea 53: 607–616.
Muellner, A.N., Samuel, R., Johnson, S.A., Cheek, M., Pennington, T.D., Chase, M.W. 2003. Molecular phylogenetics of Meliaceae (Sapindales) based on nuclear and plastid DNA sequences. Am. J. Bot. 90: 471–480.
Muellner, A.N., Savolainen, V., Samuel, R., Chase, M.W. 2006. The mahogany family “out-of-Africa”: divergence time estimation, global biogeographic patterns inferred from plastid rbcL DNA sequences, extant, and fossil distribution of diversity. Mol. Phylog. Evol. 40: 236–250.
Muellner, A.N., Samuel, R., Chase, M.W., Coleman, A., Stuessy, T.F. 2008a. An evaluation of tribes and generic relationships in Melioideae (Meliaceae) based on nuclear ITS ribosomal DNA. Taxon 57: 98–108.
Muellner, A.N., Pannell, C.M., Coleman, A., Chase, M.W. 2008b. The origin and evolution of Indomalesian, Australasian and Pacific island biotas: insights from Aglaieae (Meliaceae, Sapindales). J. Biogeogr. 35: 1769–1789.
Newton, A.C., Baker, P., Ramnarine, S., Mesén, J.F., Leakey, R.R.B. 1993. The mahogany shoot borer: prospects for control. For. Ecol. Manag. 57: 301–328.
Pannell, C.M. 1992. A taxonomic monograph of the genus Aglaia Lour. (Meliaceae). Kew Bull. Add. Ser. 16.
Pennington, T.D., Styles, B.T. 1975. A generic monograph of the Meliaceae. Blumea 22: 419–540.
Pennington, T.D., Styles, B.T. [Swietenioideae] 1981. Meliaceae. Flora Neotropica Monograph 28.
Scott, A.J. 1997. Méliacées. In: Bosser, J., Cadet, T., Gueho, J., Marais, W. (eds.) Flore des Mascareignes 69–79, pp. 1–17.
Smith, A.C. 1985. Meliaceae. Flora vitiensis nova 3: 527–578.
Styles, B.T., Khosla, P.K. 1976. Cytology and reproductive biology of Meliaceae. In: Burley, J., Styles, B.T. (eds.) Tropical trees: variation, breeding and conservation. London: Academic Press, pp. 61–67.
White, F., Styles, B.T. 1991. Meliaceae. Flora of Tropical East Africa. Rotterdam: Balkema.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2010 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Mabberley, D.J. (2010). Meliaceae. In: Kubitzki, K. (eds) Flowering Plants. Eudicots. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants, vol 10. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14397-7_13
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14397-7_13
Published:
Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
Print ISBN: 978-3-642-14396-0
Online ISBN: 978-3-642-14397-7
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life SciencesBiomedical and Life Sciences (R0)