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|accepted_name=Buxus
|accepted_authority=Linnaeus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sp. Pl.
|place=2: 983. 1753
|year=1753
}}
|common_names=Box;boxwood [Latin
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Buxaceae;Buxus
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Buxaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Buxus]]</div></div>
|etymology=<i>buxus<i/>; from Greek <i>pyxos<i/> (or <i>puxos<i/>), name for box tree, of uncertain origin but supposedly from <i>pyknos<i/>, dense, solid, alluding to excellent wood]
|volume=Volume 10
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Shrubs </b>[trees], not clonal. <b>Leaves</b> opposite or subopposite; blade margins entire, surfaces shiny. <b>Inflorescences</b> axillary and terminal, spikes or capitate clusters [racemes]. <b>Staminate</b> flowers basal; tepals 4; pistillode present. <b>Pistillate</b> flowers 1 per inflorescence, apical; tepals 5 or 6; ovary 2- or 3-carpellate; locules 1 per carpel; stigma decurrent; interstylar nectaries or nectariferous tissue present; ovules 2 per locule. <b>Fruits</b> capsules, broadly oblong [globose or ovoid], loculicidally dehiscent, splitting into 2 or 3 valves, forcibly ejecting seeds at maturity, usually glabrous; style persistent. <b>Seeds</b> 2 per locule, black, oblong; with rudimentary aril. <b>x</b> = 14.</span><!--

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|distribution=Mexico;West Indies;Central America;n South America;Europe;Asia;Africa.
|introduced=true
|discussion=<p>Species ca. 70 (1 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p>The structures subtending the pistillate flowers are ambiguous; they may be tepals or bracts. The taxonomy and nomenclature of <i>Buxus<i/> are unsettled. Species and cultivars other than <i>B. sempervirens<i/> are likely to persist from cultivation.</p>
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name=Buxus
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Buxaceae
|distribution=Mexico;West Indies;Central America;n South America;Europe;Asia;Africa.
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=Sp. Pl.
|publication year=1753
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|genus=Buxus
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