Pachysandra

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1. A taxonomic genus within the family Buxaceae – four or five species of evergreen shrubs or subshrubs, related to the boxwoods used ornamentally as groundcover.

• (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Plantae – kingdom; Viridiplantae – subkingdom; Streptophyta – infrakingdom; Embryophyta – superphylum; Tracheophyta – phylum; Spermatophytina – subphylum; angiosperms, eudicots - clades; Buxales - order; Buxaceae - family; Stylocerateae - tribe

• (genus): Pachysandra axillaris - native China; Pachysandra procumbens, Allegheny spurge - native southeast United States; Pachysandra coriacea (sometimes classified as Sarcococca coriacea) - native to India, Nepal, Myanmar; Pachysandra stylosa - native to China (sometimes treated as a variety of Pachysandra axillaris; Pachysandra terminalis Japanese spurge - native to China, Japan, widely introduced and naturalized elsewhere - species

• Pachysandra on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Pachysandra on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Pachysandra on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Pachysandra at Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
• Pachysandra at National Center for Biotechnology Information
• Pachysandra at Encyclopedia of Life
• Stylocerateae at APWeb
• Pachysandra at The Plant List
• Pachysandra at USDA Plants database