Boxwood ( lat. Buxáceae ) is a small family of dicotyledonous plants, it includes 5 genera and about 120 [2] species .
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 Boxwood evergreen ( Buxus sempervirens ) | |||||||||||||||||
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Buxaceae Dumort. , nom. cons. | |||||||||||||||||
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Buxus L. - Boxwood | |||||||||||||||||
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The most common is the genus Samshit .
Content
- 1 Distribution and ecology
- 2 Botanical Description
- 3 Childbirth
- 4 Literature
- 5 notes
- 6 References
Distribution and Ecology
The range of boxwood is very wide, family representatives are found in the temperate , subtropical and tropical regions of Eurasia , Africa and America , as well as on the islands of Madagascar and Socotra .
Botanical Description
Most boxwoods are evergreen shrubs and low trees , and only pachisander species are perennial herbs .
Leaves are simple, whole or jagged. The arrangement of the leaves is opposite or alternate .
The flowers are small, leafless. Sepals 4–5, in male flowers of styloceras — absent.
The fruit of boxwood and pachisander is a box , for sarcococcus and stylocera, is drupe .
Childbirth
- Buxus L. - Boxwood , or Buxus - includes 104 species.
- [= Crantzia Sw. , Tricera Schreb. ]
- Notobuxus Oliv. - Notobuksus
- [= Macropodandra Gilg ]
- Pachysandra Michx. - Pachisandra - 4 species.
- Sarcococca Lindl. - Sarcococcus - 7 species.
- [= Lepidopelma Klotzsch ]
- Styloceras Kunth ex A.Juss. - Stiloceras - 3 species.
Literature
- Borisovskaya G.M. Family Boxwood (Buxaceae) // Plant Life. In 6 t./ed. A. L. Takhtadzhyana . - M .: Education, 1980. - T. 5. Part 1. Flowering plants. - S. 249-252. - 430 s. - 300,000 copies.
Notes
- ↑ For the conventionality of specifying the class of dicotyledons as a superior taxon for the plant group described in this article, see the APG Systems section of the Dicotyledonous article .
- ↑ Buxaceae on The Plant List
Links
- Boxwood (English) : information on the GRIN website. (English) Retrieved March 14, 2009
- Boxwood (English) information on the Encyclopedia of Life website (EOL). (English) Retrieved March 14, 2009
- Boxwood family ( Wihaseae ) in the Biological Encyclopedia