Garryaceae
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|image_caption = Garrya elliptica foliage and catkins
|taxon = Garryaceae
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Garryaceae is a small family of plants known commonly as the silktassels.[http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&taxon_id=10354 Garryaceae.] Flora of North America, efloras.org. It contains two genera:
Aucuba was included in the family Cornaceae or Aucubaceae in some classification systems.
Together with Eucommia ulmoides the Garryaceae are currently placed by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group in an own order, the Garryales.
Chemical characteristics
Petroselinic acid occurs as the major fatty acid in Aucuba and Garrya species, and is also found in the families Griseliniaceae, Apiaceae and Araliaceae of the Apiales.{{cite journal |author1=B. Breuer |author2=T. Stuhlfauth |author3=H. Fock |author4=H. Huber | title = Fatty acids of some Cornaceae, Hydrangeaceae, Aquifoliaceae, Hamamelidaceae and Styracaceae | journal = Phytochemistry | volume = 26 | year = 1987 | pages = 1441–1445 | doi = 10.1016/S0031-9422(00)81830-0 | issue = 5|bibcode=1987PChem..26.1441B }}
Distribution
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