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Vernacular names of plants within the Family Buxaceae

Hierarchical position of the Family Buxaceae

Regnum  Plantae common name: The plant kingdom       Divisio  Magnoliophyta Cronquist syn. Angiospermophyta / Anthophyta pub. Takht. & Zimmerm. ex Reveal, Phytologia 79: 70. 29 Apr 1996. common name: angiosperms, flowering plants       Subdivisio  Magnoliophytina Frohne & U. Jensen ex Reveal pub. Phytologia 79: 70. 29 Apr 1996. common name: Angiosperms       Classis  Rosopsida Batsch pub. Dispos. Gen. Pl. Jenens.: 28. 1788.       Subclassis  Hamamelididae Takht. pub. 1967       SuperOrdo  Daphniphyllanae Takht. pub. Divers. Classif. Fl. Pl.: 140. 1 Mai 1997.       Ordo  Buxales Takht. ex Reveal pub. Phytologia 79: 72. 29 Apr 1996.       Subordo  Buxineae Engl. pub. Syllabus, ed. 2: 142. Mai 1898.       Familia  Buxaceae Dumort. pub. Comment. Bot.: 54. Nov-Dec 1822, nom. cons. common name: Boxwoods

Named members of the Family Buxaceae

1	Subfamilia  Buxoideae Burnett pub. Outl. Bot.: 604, 610, 1091, 1141. Jun 1835.
	2    Tribus  Buxeae (Dumort.) Dumort. pub. Anal. Fam. Pl.: 45. 1829.      3    Subtribus  Buxinae M�ll.-Arg. in DC. pub. Prodr. 16(1): 9, 11. mid Nov 1869.      4    Genus  Buxus L. pub. (1753) common name: boxwood, box
5	Genus  Crantzia Sw. syn. Buxus L.
6	Genus  Lepidopelma Klotzsch syn. Sarcococca Lindl.
7	Genus  Macropodandra Gilg syn. Notobuxus Oliv.
8	Genus  Notobuxus Oliv.
9	Genus  Pachysandra Michx. pub. (1803) common name: pachysandra
10	Genus  Sarcococca Lindl.
11	Genus  Tricera Schreb. syn. Buxus L.

Individual specimen entries are published in the sample database supplied with The Compleat Botanica for species or varieties of this supra-generic taxon.

For a description of the methodology followed in establishing this hierarchy see the note Nomenclature used in The Compleat Botanica.

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