Buxales

Buxales, the boxwood order of dicotyledonous flowering plants, comprising Buxaceae (90–120 species in five genera) and the small taxonomically contentious family Haptanthaceae (one species in one genus). Buxales belongs to a group of plants known as peripheral eudicots, together with Proteales, Ranunculales, and Trochodendrales, in the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group III (APG III) botanical classification system (see angiosperm). The largest genus in Buxaceae is the widely cultivated Buxus (boxwood), with about 70 species. These are generally...