Buxaceae
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Authority
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
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Family
Buxaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Description - Monoecious or dioecious trees, shrubs or perennial herbs, with simple mostly evergreen leaves, the sap not milky. Flowers regular, bracted. Petals none. Staminate flowers with 47 distinct stamens, the anthers 2-celled; sometimes with a rudimentary pistil. Pistillate flowers with a 2-4-celled (mostly 3-celled) ovary, with 2 or 1 anatropous ovules in each cavity; styles as many as the ovary-cavities, simple. Fruit a capsule or drupe, its carpels 1-2-seeded. Embryo straight; endosperm fleshy, or almost wanting. About 6 genera and 40 species of both the Old World and the New.