Anacardiaceae

Trees, shrubs or woody vines. Leaves mostly alternate, usually pinnately compound or trifoliolate, rarely simple; petioles with resin canals; stipules absent or vestigial. Flowers in cymes, sometimes borne in complex paniculate inflorescences, unisexual (usually) or bisexual; sepals and petals 5 (rarely 3, 4, 6 or 7), or sometimes petals (and rarely, sepals) lacking; sepals usually partially fused; petals usually free; stamens commonly as many as or twice as many as sepals, rarely more or a single stamen, filaments usually arising outside the annular nectary-disc, anthers versatile, opening by longitudinal slits; ovary superior or half-inferior, 1–many-locular, but usually only 1 locule developing, ovule 1 per locule, styles 1 or as many as locules and then free or united, stigma capitate or lateral. Fruit usually a drupe, usually with resinous or waxy mesocarp.