Pachysandra
See also: pachysandra
Translingual
Proper noun
Pachysandra f
- A taxonomic genus within the family Buxaceae – four or five species of evergreen shrubs or subshrubs, related to the boxwoods used ornamentally as groundcover.
Hypernyms
- (genus): Plantae - kingdom; angiosperms, eudicots - clades; Buxales - order; Buxaceae - family; Sarcococceae - tribe
Hyponyms
- (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
References
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- Pachysandra on Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
- Pachysandra at National Center for Biotechnology Information
- Pachysandra at Encyclopedia of Life
- Pachysandra at the Tree of Life Web Project
- Buxaceae at APWeb
- Pachysandra at The Plant List
- Pachysandra at USDA Plants database
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