Trees or shrubs, Leaves exstipulate, alternate, compound; leaflets alter¬nate to opposite, entire. Flowers regular or irregular, in axillary and sub-terminal panicles. Sepals 4-5, free or connate at the base, imbricate, in 2 rows. Petals 4-5 or absent, with or without scales. Disc annular, fleshy, glabrous. Stamens 6-10, sometimes less, free, usually exserted. Ovary ovoid or obovoid, 2-4 locular; ovules solitary. Fruit capsular, 2-4-lobed, lobes connate or free, sometimes compressed. Seeds sub-globose to oblong, arillate.

A genus of about 60 species, distributed in Australia and Polynesia. Represented in W. Pakistan by 1 cultivated species.

Lower Taxon

• Cupaniopsis anacardioides (A. Rich.) Radlk.

Related Synonym(s):

• Cupania anacardioides A. Rich. = Cupaniopsis anacardioides (A. Rich.) Radlk.