Angiospermae - Sapindales - Meliaceae
Parent taxon: Sapindales according to The Angiosperm Phylogeny Group 2016
See also Chandler 1961, Knowlton 1919, Mabberley 2000, MacGinitie 1941 and Taylor et al. 2008
Sister taxa: Anacardiaceae, Aurantiaceae, Biebersteiniaceae, Burseraceae, Cneoraceae, Coahuiloxylon, Dodonaeaceae, Ilicaceae, Kirkiaceae, Lampetia, Nitrariaceae, Paleosantalaceaepites, Ptaeroxylaceae, Rutaceae, Sapindaceae, Simaroubaceae
Subtaxa: Aglaia Aglaioxylon Amoora Amooroxylon Aphanamixis Azadirachta Beddomea Carapa Carapoxylon Cedrela Cedrelophyllum Chisocheton Chisochetonoxylon Chloroxylon Chukrasia Dysoxydendron Dysoxylum Heyneoxylon Iugopollis Melia Meliaceaecarpum Meliaceaephyllum Meliaceophyllum Meliapollis Melicarya Paratrichilioxylon Synoum Toona Trichilia Vavaea
Ecology: "photoautotroph"
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Australia (8 collections), the Congo-Kinshasa (1), India (10)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of India (2)
• Pliocene of Argentina (1), Australia (1)
• Miocene to Pliocene of India (3), Mexico (1), Nepal (1), Trinidad and Tobago (3)
• Miocene to Oligocene of United States (1: Montana)
• Miocene to Pleistocene of Burundi (1)
• Miocene of Australia (1), Bhutan (1), Brazil (2), China (3), Cuba (1), Germany (1), India (5), Japan (1), Nepal (2), United States (6: California, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Australia (3), United States (2: Montana)
• Oligocene of United States (5: Oregon)
• Eocene to Oligocene of United States (4: Colorado)
• Eocene to Miocene of Argentina (1)
• Eocene of Japan (1), Myanmar (34), the United Kingdom (2), United States (4: California, Colorado, Idaho, Wyoming), Venezuela (1)
• Tertiary of Venezuela (1)
• Paleocene of Colombia (2)
• Paleogene of India (4)
• Cretaceous of Antarctica (1)
Total: 121 collections including 155 occurrences