View source for Buxaceae ← Buxaceae You do not have permission to edit this page, for the following reason: The action you have requested is limited to users in the group: Users. You can view and copy the source of this page. {{Treatment/ID |accepted_name=Buxaceae |accepted_authority=Dumortier |publications= |common_names=Boxwood Family |basionyms= |synonyms= |hierarchy=Buxaceae |hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Buxaceae]]</div></div> |volume=Volume 10 |mention_page= |treatment_page= }}<!-- --><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><!-- -->{{Treatment/Body |distribution=North America;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;n South America;Europe;Asia;Africa;nearly worldwide. |discussion=<p>Genera 7, species ca. 120 (2 genera, 3 species in the flora).</p> |tables= |references= }}<!-- --><div class="treatment-key"> ==Key== <div class="treatment-key-group"> {| class="wikitable fna-keytable" |-id=key-0-1 |1 |Shrubs, not clonal; leaves opposite or subopposite; tepals of pistillate flowers 5 or 6; seeds 2 per locule. |[[Buxus|Buxus]] |-id=key-0-1 |1 |Herbs or subshrubs, clonal; leaves alternate; tepals of pistillate flowers usually 4; seeds 1 per locule. |[[Pachysandra|Pachysandra]] |} </div></div><!-- -->{{#Taxon: name=Buxaceae |author=David E. Boufford |authority=Dumortier |rank=family |parent rank= |synonyms= |basionyms= |family=Buxaceae |distribution=North America;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;n South America;Europe;Asia;Africa;nearly worldwide. |reference=None |publication title= |publication year= |special status= |source xml=https://xjsachs2@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/e39f0e846f172941159b2045254d62d10d9823f6/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V10/V10_4.xml }}<!-- -->[[Category:Treatment]] Templates used on this page: Buxaceae Illustrations (view source) Template:Buxaceae (view source) Template:Treatment/AuthorLink (view source) Template:Treatment/Body (view source) Template:Treatment/Body/Maps (view source) Template:Treatment/ID (view source) Return to Buxaceae.