Meliaceae

=Family description= Leaves simple to compound (unifolialate, trifoliate, or pinnate (sometimes with a fernbud-like apex), rarely bipinnate), alternate. Stipules absent. Leaflets usually entire, rarely lobed or serrate, occasionally with glandular dots.
 * Trees of shrubs**, sometimes with latex.
 * Inflorescences** paniculate, racemose, or spike-like, occasionally fasciculate or with solitary flowers.
 * Flowers** bisexual or unisexual with rudiments of opposite sex. Calyx more or less 4--6-lobed. Petals 3--7(--14), in 1(--2) whorl(s), separate or connate at base. Stamens usually partly or entirely connate into a tube. Disc absent or situated around the ovary, sometimes nectariferous. Ovary superior, mostly 2--6-locular with 1 style.
 * Fruit** a capsule, berry or drupe. Seeds winged or not and having a fleshy aril or sarcotesta or a combination of these.

=General info=
 * Distribution** About 50 genera with c. 575 species, throughout tropical and subtropical regions of the world, except Northern Africa.
 * Ecology** Usually understorey to upper canopy species in closed forests.
 * Uses** Timber (mostly trees from the Neotropics, like Mahogany), shade trees, fruits, vegetables, poisons (insecticides), oils for soap-making and used as illuminants, horticultural ornamentals.
 * Similar to** May be confused with Anacardiaceae (resin), Burseraceae (resin), Rutaceae (dots), and Sapindaceae (extrastaminal disc; free rhachis ending) but can generally be distinguished by the connate stamens.

=Treated genera=
 * Aglaia
 * Azadirachta
 * Dysoxylum
 * Toona
 * Walsura

Aglaia edulis

Dysoxylum sp

Melia azadirachta

Toona ciliata

Walsura pachycaulon