Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, exstipulate, usually pinnate. Flowers actinomorphic, usually bisexual, hypogynous, in terminal or axillary panicles. Sepals 4-6, small, usually basally connate, imbricate, rarely valvate. Petals 4-6, free, rarely connate at base, adnate to staminal tube. Stamens usually twice as many as petals, inserted outside the base of hypogynous disc; filaments usually united into a staminal tube (monoadelphous), very rarely free; anthers erect, often sessile, inserted in the staminal tube. Disc usually annular or tubular, sometimes wanting. Carpels 2-5, syncarpous; ovary superior, usually free, 2-5-locular, ovules 1-2 per loculus, rarely more; style simple; stigma disciform or capitate. Fruit a capsule, drupaceous or baccate.

58 genera and about 669 species

Azedirachta indica

Chukrassia tabularis

Melia azedarach

Toona ciliata