Sapindales

{{Short description|Order of flowering plants}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| taxon = Sapindales

| image = Acer-negundo-total.JPG

| image_caption = Manitoba Maple (Acer negundo)

| authority = Dumortier

| subdivision_ranks = Families

| subdivision = See text

}}

Sapindales {{IPAc-en|s|æ|p|ᵻ|n|ˈ|d|eɪ|l|iː|z}} is an order of flowering plants. Well-known members of Sapindales include citrus; maples, horse-chestnuts, lychees and rambutans; mangos and cashews; frankincense and myrrh; mahogany and neem.

File:Sapindales phylogeny.jpg

The APG III system of 2009 includes it in the clade malvids (in rosids, in eudicots) with the following nine families:{{Cite journal |last=Angiosperm Phylogeny Group III |year=2009 |title=An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG III |journal=Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society |volume=161 |issue=2 |pages=105–121 |doi=10.1111/j.1095-8339.2009.00996.x |doi-access=free |hdl=10654/18083 |hdl-access=free }}{{cite journal | title = Placing Biebersteiniaceae, a herbaceous clade of Sapindales, in a temporal and geographic context | journal = Plant Systematics and Evolution | year = 2007 | first = A. N. | last = Muellner |author2=D. D. Vassiliades |author3=S. S. Renner | volume = 266 | issue = 3–4 | pages = 233–252| doi = 10.1007/s00606-007-0546-x| bibcode = 2007PSyEv.266..233M | url =http://www.umsl.edu/~renners/Biebersteinia_PSE_2007.pdf| citeseerx = 10.1.1.331.573 | s2cid = 6400337 }}{{Cite web | last = Stevens | first = P.F.| title = Angiosperm Phylogeny Website. Version 9, June 2008 [and more or less continuously updated since].| publisher = Missouri Botanical Garden| date = 2001{{ndash}}2008 | url = http://www.mobot.org/mobot/research/apweb/}}

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• Anacardiaceae
• Biebersteiniaceae
• Burseraceae
• Kirkiaceae
• Meliaceae
• Nitrariaceae (including Peganaceae and Tetradiclidaceae)
• Rutaceae
• Sapindaceae
• Simaroubaceae

The APG II system of 2003 allowed the optional segregation of families now included in the Nitrariaceae.

In the classification system of Dahlgren the Rutaceae were placed in the order Rutales, in the superorder Rutiflorae (also called Rutanae). The Cronquist system of 1981 used a somewhat different circumscription, including the following families:

• Staphyleaceae
• Melianthaceae
• Bretschneideraceae
• Akaniaceae
• Sapindaceae
• Hippocastanaceae
• Aceraceae
• Burseraceae
• Anacardiaceae
• Julianiaceae
• Simaroubaceae
• Cneoraceae
• Meliaceae
• Rutaceae
• Zygophyllaceae

The difference from the APG III system is not as large as may appear, as the plants in the families Aceraceae and Hippocastanaceae stay in this order at APG III (both included in family Sapindaceae). The species now composing the family Nitrariaceae in APG III also belonged to this order in the Cronquist system as part of the family Zygophyllaceae, while those now in the family Kirkiaceae were present as part of the family Simaroubaceae.