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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> perennial, shrubs, or subshrubs [trees], monoecious [dioecious or flowers bisexual], terrestrial, unarmed, clonal or not. <b>Stems</b> erect and ascending. <b>Leaves</b> persistent, opposite, subopposite, or alternate, simple; stipules absent; petiolate [sessile]; blade leathery, margins entire or dentate. <b>Inflorescences</b> terminal or axillary, spikes, racemes, or capitate clusters; bracts and/or bracteoles often present, subtending flowers. <b>Flowers</b> unisexual [bisexual], staminate and pistillate on same plant, sessile or pedicellate; perianth and androecium hypogynous; tepals 2, 4, 5, or 6, distinct; petals absent. <b>Staminate</b> flowers: stamens 4 [6], antitepalous, free, distinct; filaments thickened; anthers conspicuous, often red; pistillode present or absent. <b>Pistillate</b> flowers: pistils [1 or] 2- or 3(or 4)-carpellate, basally connate, apically distinct and grading into styles; ovary superior, locules 1 or 2 times carpels; placentation axile; styles equal to number of carpels, subulate, divergent to divaricate, often recurved in fruit, stigmatic along inner surface; interstylar nectaries present or absent; ovules 1 or 2 per locule, pendulous, anatropous, bitegmic, crassinucellate. <b>Fruits</b> capsules or berries, circumscissile near base or loculicidally dehiscent and forcibly ejecting seeds. <b>Seeds</b> brown or black, shiny, carunculate or not; endosperm fleshy.</span><!--

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|discussion=<p>Genera 7, species ca. 120 (2 genera, 3 species in the flora): North America, Mexico, West Indies, Central America, n South America, Europe, Asia, Africa; nearly worldwide.</p>
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|Shrubs, not clonal; leaves opposite or subopposite; tepals of pistillate flowers 5 or 6; seeds 2 per locule.
|[[Buxus|Buxus]]
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|1
|Herbs or subshrubs, clonal; leaves alternate; tepals of pistillate flowers usually 4; seeds 1 per locule.
|[[Pachysandra|Pachysandra]]
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