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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]]''
 
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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==
 
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{{Commons|Aucuba japonica}}
 
 
 
[[Category:Garryales]]
 
[[Category:Asterid families]]
 
 
 
 
 
{{Asterid-stub}}
 

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