Boxwood-like

Boxwood-like
	Common boxwood ( Buxus sempervirens ), illustration.
Systematics
Empire :	Plants (Plantae)
Department :	Vascular plants (tracheophyta)
Subdivision :	Seed plants (Spermatophytina)
Class :	Bedecktsamer (Magnoliopsida)
	Eudicotyledons
Order :	Boxwood-like
Scientific name
	Buxales
	Takht. ex Reveal

The boxwood-like (Buxales) are an order within the flowering plants (Magnoliopsida). They occupy a basal position within the eudicotyledons .

description

They are woody or herbaceous plants . The leaves are entire. The flowers are unisexual, the species either monoecious ( monocyte ) or dioecious ( diocyte ) separately sexed. Otherwise the group is quite heterogeneous.

Systematics

Only two families belong to the boxwood order :

Box trees (Buxaceae), including Didymeles
Haptanthaceae

Individual evidence

^ The order of the Buxales on the AP website , accessed December 28, 2009.
↑ Angiosperm Phylogeny Group : An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG III. In: Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society. Volume 161, No. 2, 2009, pp. 105-121, DOI: 10.1111 / j.1095-8339.2009.00996.x .

Web links

Commons : Boxwood (Buxales) - collection of images, videos and audio files

[APWeb-1] The order of the Buxales on the AP website , accessed December 28, 2009.

[APGIII-2] Angiosperm Phylogeny Group : An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG III. In: Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society. Volume 161, No. 2, 2009, pp. 105-121, DOI: 10.1111 / j.1095-8339.2009.00996.x .