Anacardiaceae is commonly known as the Cashew Family. The Anacardiaceae is a family from Sapindales Order, splits from Magnoliopsida Class. It is a family among about 406 families in Magnoliophyta or Flowering Plants Division. The Anacardiaceae family consists of 72 genera and more than 500 species.

Characteristics include:

• Trees, shrub, climbers or perennial herbs
• With resin ducts and laticifers (sap is often toxic)
• Often pinnately compound leaves
• Flowers 5-merous, small, with nectary disc
• Stamens 5 or 10
• One ovule per carpel, 1-5 carpels in a fruit
• Fruit a drupe

Genera in Anacardiaceae:

Abrahamia	Cyrtocarpa	Mangifera	Pseudospondias
Actinocheita	Dobinea	Mauria	Rhodosphaera
Amphipterygium	Dracontomelon	Metopium	Rhoeidium
Anacardium	Drimycarpus	Micronychia	Rhus
Androtium	Euleria	Mosquitoxylum	Schinopsis
Antrocaryon	Euroschinus	Myracrodruon	Schinus
Astronium	Faguetia	Nothopegia	Schmaltzia
Attilaea	Fegimanra	Ochoterenaea	Sclerocarya
Blepharocarya	Gluta	Operculicarya	Searsia
Bonetiella	Haematostaphis	Orthopterygium	Semecarpus
Bouea	Haplorhus	Ozoroa	Sorindeia
Buchanania	Heeria	Pachycormus	Spondias
Campnosperma	Holigarna	Pegia	Styphonia
Campylopetalum	Lannea	Pistacia	Tapirira
Cardenasiodendron	Laurophyllus	Pleiogynium	Terminthia
Choerospondias	Lithraea	Poupartia	Thyrsodium
Comocladia	Loxopterygium	Protorhus	Toxicodendron
Cotinus	Malosma	Pseudosmodingium	Trichoscypha