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Vernacular names of plants within the Genus Buxus

Hierarchical position of the Genus Buxus

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       Subfamilia  Buxoideae Burnett pub. Outl. Bot.: 604, 610, 1091, 1141. Jun 1835.       Tribus  Buxeae (Dumort.) Dumort. pub. Anal. Fam. Pl.: 45. 1829.       Subtribus  Buxinae M�ll.-Arg. in DC. pub. Prodr. 16(1): 9, 11. mid Nov 1869.       Genus  Buxus L. pub. (1753) common name: boxwood, box

Named members of the Genus Buxus

1	Species  chinensis Link syn. Simmondsia chinensis
2	Species  microphylla Siebold & Zucc. common name: littleleaf boxwood
3	Species  portoricensis Alain common name: Puerto Rico box
4	Species  sempervirens L. common name: common box, boxwood
5	Species  vahlii Baill. common name: Vahl's box

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

Additional information is available in the commercial version of The Compleat Botanica software for species with this symbol.

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