Dodonaeoideae

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Dodonaeoideae is a subfamily of flowering plants in the soapberry family, Sapindaceae.[1]

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Dodonaeoideae
Temporal range: Santonian–present
Dodonaea viscosa in Keesara, Rangareddy district, Andhra Pradesh, India.
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Sapindales
Family: Sapindaceae
Subfamily: Dodonaeoideae
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The subfamily includes 24 genera in two tribes, Dodonaeae and Doratoxyleae.[2]

A single fossil genus, †Alatacarpus Greller et Goudket, is known from the Late Cretaceous (Santonian)-aged Magothy Formation from Long Island, New York. The specimen consists of a fossil fruit similar to that of Dodonaea.[3]

Tribe Dodonaeae

(Kunth) DC. (1824). Type genus: Dodonaea Mill.

Tribe Doratoxyleae

Radlk. 1890. Type genus: Doratoxylon Thouars ex Hook.f.

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