| Common Names - | Synonyms - |
| Authority - Blume | Total Number of genera - 3 |
| Gymnosperm or Angiosperm? - Angiosperm | Total Number of species - 160 |
| Plant forms - Tree/Shrub/Liane | |
| World Distribution - S.E. Asia, Malaysia and tropical & temperate America | |
| Comments - More recent classifications place it as the sole family in the order Sabiales, or (as in the APG II system), as unplaced to order | |
| 1 - Meliosma. 2 - Ophiocaryon. 3 - Sabia. |