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-{{Automatic taxobox
-|name = Garryaceae
-|image = Garrya elliptica.jpg
-|image_caption = ''[[Garrya elliptica]]'' foliage and catkins
-|taxon = Garryaceae
-|authority = [[John Lindley|Lindl.]]<ref name=APGIII2009>{{Cite journal |last=Angiosperm Phylogeny Group |year=2009 |title=An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG III |journal=Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society |volume=161 |issue=2 |pages=105–121 |url=http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/122630309/abstract | format= PDF |accessdate=2013-06-26 |doi=10.1111/j.1095-8339.2009.00996.x }}</ref>
-|subdivision_ranks = Genera
-|subdivision = ''[[Garrya]]''<br/>
-''[[Aucuba]]''
-}}
-Also known as the Silk Tassel Family, '''Garryaceae''' is a small [[family (biology)|family]] of [[dicotyledon]]s, including only two genera:
-*''[[Garrya]]'' <small>[[David Douglas (botanist)|Douglas]] ex [[John Lindley|Lindl.]], 1834</small>. About 16-18 species.
-*''[[Aucuba]]'' <small>[[Carl Peter Thunberg|Thunb.]], 1783</small>. About 3-10 species.
-''Aucuba'' was included in the family [[Cornaceae]] in some classification systems.
-==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]] .<ref>{{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}}</ref>  Together with [[Eucommia ulmoides]] the Garryaceae are currently placed by the [[Angiosperm Phylogeny Group]] in an own order, the [[Garryales]].
-[[Image:Aucuba japonica1.jpg|thumb|left|250px|''Aucuba japonica'']]
-==Distribution==
-The family is found in warm temperate and subtropical regions, ''Garrya'' in [[North America]], and ''Aucuba'' in eastern [[Asia]]. They are [[evergreen]] [[shrub]]s or small [[tree]]s with opposite, simple [[leaf|leaves]].
-==References==
-{{reflist}}
-{{Commons|Aucuba japonica}}
-[[Category:Garryales]]
-[[Category:Asterid families]]
-{{Asterid-stub}}

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