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The Meliaceae family, also known as the Mahogany family, includes 50 genera and 1400 species that are widely distributed in the tropics of both hemispheres. Plants in this family are mostly woody trees with pinnately compound, exstipulate leaves. Flowers are hermaphrodite, actinomorphic, and hypogynous with 8-10 stamens that are monadelphous. Several plants in this family have economic importance, including Neem which yields margossa oil used in soap and medicine, and Cedrela whose oil is used in microscopy

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NAVEEN C. A. JOSHI Officials,

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