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Taxaceae (yew)

Synonyms: Amentotaxaceae; Austrotaxaceae; Torreyaceae

Wikipedia Abstract

Taxaceae /tækˈseɪsiː/, commonly called the yew family, is a coniferous family which includes seven genera and about 30 species of plants, or in older interpretations three genera and 7 to 12 species. They are many-branched, small trees and shrubs. The leaves are evergreen, spirally arranged, often twisted at the base to appear 2-ranked. They are linear to lanceolate, and have pale green or white stomatal bands on the undersides. The plants are dioecious, rarely monoecious. The male cones are 2–5 millimetres (0.079–0.197 in) long, and shed pollen in the early spring. The female cones are highly reduced, with just one ovuliferous scale and one seed. As the seed matures, the ovuliferous scale develops into a fleshy aril partly enclosing the seed. The mature aril is brightly coloured, soft, ju
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Genus

Amentotaxus (Amentotaxus) (7)   (1)
Athrotaxopsis (2)
Austrotaxus (Austrotaxus) (1)
Bartholinodendron (1)
Caryotaxus (1)
Cephalotaxites (1)
Cephalotaxopsis (4)
Cephalotaxospermum (1)
Feildenia (1)
Florinia (1)
Laricopsis (2)
Marskea (1)
Nipanioruha (3)
Palaeocladus (1)
Palaeotaxus (1)
Paracupressinoxylon (1)
Pityoxylon (17)
Protophyllocladus (4)
Pseudogeinitzia (1)
Pseudotaxus (Pseudotaxus) (1)
Sphenolepidium (6)
Striatopodocarpites (4)
Takliostrobus (1)
Taxaceoxylon (1)
Taxites (8)
Taxus (35)   (5)
Thomasiocladus (1)
Tomharrisia (1)
Torellia (1)
Torreya (torreya) (10)   (2)
Torreyites (2)
Vesquia (1)

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External References

Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0