Buxaceae

Common boxwood ( Buxus sempervirens)

The boxwood plants ( Buxaceae ) are a family of plants of the order of the boxwood -like ( Buxales ). This family includes five genera and about 70 species.

Dissemination

The family has a global but highly disjunct distribution. There are taxa in the Holarctic and Neotropical Paläotropis. There are habitats of the Temperate latitudes to the tropics. The only occurring in Central Europe species is the Common boxwood ( Buxus sempervirens), he is often used as an ornamental shrub. In the Balearic Islands, Sardinia and southern Spain, the Balearic boxwood ( Buxus Balearica ) is common.

Description

They are evergreen, herbaceous plants, subshrubs, shrubs or small trees. The change-constant or against permanent leaves are simple. The leaf edges are smooth to toothed. Stipules absent.

They are mostly monoecious getrenntgeschlechtig ( monoecious ), rarely dioecious getrenntgeschlechtig ( dioecious ), with small, inconspicuous flowers. Four bracts and four to six stamens are present per male flower. Six bracts are present per female flower and three carpels are fused to a syncarp, superior ovaries. Most fruit capsules are formed.

System

The family is divided into two tribes and five genera and 70 species:

  • Tribus Sarcococceae: Notobuxus Olive. The home ranges from Central to South Africa.
  • Pachysandra Michx. Using three to five species occurring in East Asia and North America.
  • Meat berries ( Sarcococca Lindl. ): With 15 to 20 evergreen shrub species in Southeast Asia.
  • Styloceras A.Juss. With three species in South America.
  • Boxwood (Buxus L.): With 30 to 70 species in Europe, Asia and Central America.

Swell

  • The family at the APWebsite.
  • The family at DELTA.
  • Brief Description of the Botanical Garden of Tübingen family.
  • Description in the Flora of China. (English )
  • David John Mabberley: The Plant-Book. A portable dictionary of the higher plants. Cambridge University Press 1987. ISBN 0-521-34060-8
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