Overview
Buxales is a at the rank of order.
Under the APG II system, Buxaceae is a family unplaced as to order in the eudicots. This family may optionally include the genus Didymeles, which in Cronquist system was given its own family and order, placed in subclass Hamamelidae. APG II allows the option of continuing treating Didymeles as a family of its own.
In addition, APG II mentions the possibility that in a future version of the system the family Buxaceae might be elevated to ordinal status. In that case Buxales Takht. ex Reveal (1996) could become an order of one to two families. This name is so used by the AP-Website.
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Taxonomy
The Order Buxales is further organized into finer groupings including:
- Family (1): Buxaceae
- Species: ZipcodeZoo has pages for 469 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in the Order Buxales.
Families
Buxaceae
Buxaceae is a small of four or five genera and about 90-120 species of flowering plants. They are shrubs and small trees, with a cosmopolitan distribution. A fifth genus sometimes accepted in the past (Notobuxus), has been shown by genetic studies to be included within Buxus (Balthazar et al., 2000). [more]
At least 473 species and subspecies belong to the Family Buxaceae.
More info about the Family Buxaceae may be found here.
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