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Anacardiaceae
3-655.40.00English: Cashew family; Sumac family.
Botany: ± 80 genera; ± 700 species; resin canals; ovule with 1 locule.
Content: polyphenols; flavonoids, biflavonoids; flavonols, fisetin, fustin, sulfuretin;tannins; oleoresins, lattices; alkylated phenols.
Culture: Cinderella.
Use: cashew nuts; pistacia nuts; mango; marula fruits; varnish; tanning; red dyes.
DD: Oxygen, Chlorum, Silver Series.Plant theory 2Anacardiaceae is split in its 2 subfamilies: Rhusoideae and Spondioideae.
Rhusoideaeis placed in Subphase 7. Spondioideae is placed in Subphase 6.Plant theory 1Anacardiaceae was treated as one family and was placed in Phase 4 of Sapindales, in Subphase 2.TaxonomyAnacardiaceae is one of the main Families in the Sapindales in the Apg3 classification.
In the Plant theory Anacardiaceae is placed in Subphase 2.BotanyShrubs, trees or climbers, Pegia.
Stem: resin exudate, acrid, turpentine smelling, milky, becoming black when exposed to air, poisonous, sometimes foul-smelling; resin canals are characteristic, located in the pith, in the primary cortex or the regular bark; tannin sacs are common.
Leaves: simple or compound, imparipinnate; crowded at the end of twigs; spirally arranged; entire; stipules absent; petioles usually thickened at base
Inflorescences: mostly large terminal or axillary panicles.
Flowers: inconspicuous, small, up to 0.5 cm across; unisexual, regular; disc present.
Sepals: usually 5 (sometimes 4), free or slightly connate.
Petals: usually 5 (sometimes 4), usually free, valvate or imbricate.
Androecium: stamens 8--10, inserted on disc, partly staminodal.
Gynoecium: ovary usually superior, 2--5(--12)-celled, each cell with 1 ovule.
Fruit: usually a drupe; often flattened, sometimes with persistent calyx; endosperm scanty or absent.DD Burseraceae: ovules 2 per locule (1 in Anacardiaceae).
DD Sapindaceae: free rhachis end (absent in Anacardiaceae).
DD Meliaceae: staminal tube (free in Anacardiaceae).
Botany: ± 80 genera; ± 700 species; resin canals; ovule with 1 locule.
Content: polyphenols; flavonoids, biflavonoids; flavonols, fisetin, fustin, sulfuretin;tannins; oleoresins, lattices; alkylated phenols.
Culture: Cinderella.
Use: cashew nuts; pistacia nuts; mango; marula fruits; varnish; tanning; red dyes.
DD: Oxygen, Chlorum, Silver Series.Plant theory 2Anacardiaceae is split in its 2 subfamilies: Rhusoideae and Spondioideae.
Rhusoideaeis placed in Subphase 7. Spondioideae is placed in Subphase 6.Plant theory 1Anacardiaceae was treated as one family and was placed in Phase 4 of Sapindales, in Subphase 2.TaxonomyAnacardiaceae is one of the main Families in the Sapindales in the Apg3 classification.
In the Plant theory Anacardiaceae is placed in Subphase 2.BotanyShrubs, trees or climbers, Pegia.
Stem: resin exudate, acrid, turpentine smelling, milky, becoming black when exposed to air, poisonous, sometimes foul-smelling; resin canals are characteristic, located in the pith, in the primary cortex or the regular bark; tannin sacs are common.
Leaves: simple or compound, imparipinnate; crowded at the end of twigs; spirally arranged; entire; stipules absent; petioles usually thickened at base
Inflorescences: mostly large terminal or axillary panicles.
Flowers: inconspicuous, small, up to 0.5 cm across; unisexual, regular; disc present.
Sepals: usually 5 (sometimes 4), free or slightly connate.
Petals: usually 5 (sometimes 4), usually free, valvate or imbricate.
Androecium: stamens 8--10, inserted on disc, partly staminodal.
Gynoecium: ovary usually superior, 2--5(--12)-celled, each cell with 1 ovule.
Fruit: usually a drupe; often flattened, sometimes with persistent calyx; endosperm scanty or absent.DD Burseraceae: ovules 2 per locule (1 in Anacardiaceae).
DD Sapindaceae: free rhachis end (absent in Anacardiaceae).
DD Meliaceae: staminal tube (free in Anacardiaceae).