Pachysandra Michx.

Pachysandra (en), Phachysandre (fr)

Genus

Angiosperms > Buxales > Buxaceae

Characteristics

Subshrubs, creeping or decumbent, or perennial herbs. Leaves alternate, petiolate, thinly leathery or papery, margin dentate in apical half, rarely entire, lateral veins 2 or 3 pairs, lowest triplinerved. Inflorescences terminal or axillary spikes, bracteate, androgynous; male flowers inserted in middle to apical part, female flowers in basal part, rarely both solitary in inflorescence. Flowers small, white or rose. Male flowers: tepals 4, divided into outer and inner series; stamens 4, opposite to tepals; filaments exserted, slightly compressed and broad; sterile pistil 1, 4-ribbed, apex truncate. Female flowers: tepals 4-6; ovary with 2 or 3 locules; styles 2 or 3, long; stigma decurrent to middle or middle-lower part of style; bracts and tepals ciliolate; interstylar nectaries or nectariferous tissue lacking. Fruit a drupe.
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Staminate fls with 4 sep, stamens 4, opposite the sep, long-exsert, with very stout filaments; pistillate fls with 4 or more sep; ovary bi-or tricarpellate, with 4 or 6 uniovulate locelli; fr capsular or baccate, lobed; suffrutescent plants with long rhizomes, the ± evergreen, alternate lvs mostly crowded toward the summit of the erect or ascending stems, the fls in spikes, a few at the base pistillate, the upper all staminate. 4, the others in e. Asia.
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Growth form herb
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Hardiness (USDA) 4-9

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Images

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Distribution

Pachysandra world distribution map, present in China and United States of America

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:15739-1
WFO ID wfo-4000027701
COL ID 6C25
BDTFX ID 86922
INPN ID 715626
Wikipedia (EN) Link
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Synonyms

Pachysandra

Lower taxons

Pachysandra axillaris Pachysandra procumbens Pachysandra terminalis