Buxus vahlii

• Overview
• Common Names
• Description
• Biology
• Taxonomy
• Similar Species
• Bibliography
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• Notes

Overview

Critically Endangered

Common Names

Description

Genus Buxus

Profusely branched shrubs or dwarf trees . Leaves opposite, sessile or subsessile , entire , glabrous or hairy . Inflorescence pedunculate or sessile, of dense racemose clusters , often with a terminal female flower surrounded by several male flowers. Flowers greenish-yellow, unisexual (plants monoecious), sessile to shortly pedicellate . Sepals 4-6, unequal. Stamens 4, free , inserted on receptacle around vestigial ovary, anthers oblong with thick connective , dehiscing longitudinally. Ovary tricarpellary, syncarpous , 3-loculed, each locule 2-ovuled; styles 3, rarely basally connate , spreading , short, stigma 2-lobed. Capsule coriaceous , ovoid , 3-beaked with persistent styles, dehiscing into 3, 2-seeded and 2-horned valves . Seed caruncled, somewhat triangular or oblong, glossy-black; embryo with oblong cotyledons.

About 70 species; distributed in Eurasia , Middle East, Tropical and South Africa, Madagascar, Indo-Pakistan subcontinent to East Asia, Philippines and Sunda Isles; West Indies and North and Central America."Buxus". in Flora of Pakistan Page 4.. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org.

Physical Description

Habitat

Ecology: A shrub or tree of coastal limestone hills , restricted to forested ledges and ravines . (Ref. 82890)

Biology

Reproduction

Duration: Perennial

Taxonomy

Unambiguous Synonyms

1. Tricera vahlii (Baill.) Britt.

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name . Latest taxonomic scrutiny: 15-Mar-2000

Place of publication : Monogr. Buxac. 67. 1859

Name verified on 11-Apr-1994 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 22-May-1997

Similar Species

Members of the genus Buxus

There are approximately 393 species in this genus. Here are just 100 of them:

B.'Bike Loft' (Bike Loft Boxwood) · B. 'Chicagoland Green' (Boxwood) · B. 'Glencoe' · B. 'Green Gem' (Green Gem Boxwood) · B. 'Green Mound' · B. 'Green Mountain' (Green Mountain Boxwood) · B. 'Green Velvet' (Boxwood) · B. 'Newport Blue' · B. 'Richard Weir III' (Richard Weir Boxwood) · B. acuminata · B. acunae · B. acutata · B. aneura · B. angustifolia · B. aquartiana · B. arborea · B. arborescens · B. argentea · B. aurea · B. aurea 'Marginata' · B. australis · B. austro-yunnanensis · B. bahamensis · B. balearica · B. baracoensis · B. bartlettii · B. benguellensis · B. bissei · B. bodinieri · B. bodinieri 'David's Gold' · B. braimbridgeorum · B. brevipes · B. calcarea · B. californica · B. calophylla · B. capuronii · B. cariacea · B. caucasica · B. cephalantha · B. cephalantha var. shantouensis · B. chaoanensis · B. cipolinica · B. citrifolia · B. citrifolia var. brevipes · B. citrifolia var. fuscescens · B. cochinchinensis · B. colchica · B. conzattii · B. cordata · B. cordifolia · B. coriacea · B. crassifolia · B. crassifolia var. oblongata · B. crispa · B. cruciata · B. cubana · B. cucullata · B. dioica · B. ekmanii · B. elegantissima · B. excisa · B. flaviramea · B. foliosa · B. fortunei · B. fruticosa · B. glomerata · B. gonoclada · B. hainanensis · B. haleppica · B. handsworthii · B. harlandi · B. harlandii (Harland Boxwood) · B. harlandii 'Rubra' · B. hebecarpa · B. henryi · B. heterophylla · B. hildebrandtii · B. hirta · B. historica · B. holttumiana · B. humbertii · B. hyrcana · B. ichagensis · B. ichangensis · B. imbricata · B. intermedia · B. itremoensis · B. japonica · B. japonica 'Nana' · B. jaucoensis · B. kitashimae · B. koreana · B. koreana f. elongata · B. koreana f. insularis · B. laevigata (Smooth Box) · B. lancifolia · B. latistyla · B. leivae · B. leonii · B. linearifolia

Bibliography

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Notes

Contributors

• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed February 02, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from provider.
• MBLWHOI Library: Universal Biological Index and Organizer. uBio.org accessed July 17, 2008.
• USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program. Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database]. National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. URL (April 26, 2008)
• World Conservation Monitoring Centre 1998. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 19, 2008.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal February 02, 2008:

• Missouri Botanical Garden, Missouri Botanical Garden

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2651790
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-28025
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 268615
• GRIN Nomen Number: 319892
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 28025
• International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 38776-2
• IUCN ID: 30906
• U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Species Identifier: Q26G
• U.S.D.A. Plant Symbol: TRVA3
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 26615

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