A personal Taxaceae, ordinarily known as a yew family, includes three genera & astir 7 to 12 coinage of coniferous plants, or inside more interpretations (watch Classification, following), sestet genera & astir Xxx coinage.

It is tremendously branched, little trees and shrubs. A leaves come evergreen, spirally arranged, typically twisted at a base to come out Two-ranked. It is linear to lancelike, & own blench green or even whiten stomatal elastic on the bottom. A plants come dioecious, rarely monoecious. A male cones are 2-Five millimetre hanker, & shed pollen in the early spring. A female cones come extremely reduced, by using merely 1 ovuliferous shell & of these seed. When the seed matures, a ovuliferous shell develops into a overweight aril partly enclosing the seed. A matured aril is bright coloured, easy, juicy & sweetly, & is eaten by birds which then disperse a tough seed undamaged in their dung.

Classification
A Taxaceae is today usually involved by using 100% more coniferous tree in the sequentially Pinales, as DNA analysis has shown that a yews come monophyletic by using the more families in the Pinales (Chase et al., 1993; Price, 2003), the guide supported by micromorphological studies (Anderson & Owens, 2003). Erst it were typically treated when distinct from either more coniferous tree by placing the two within the separate the correct sequence Taxales.

A genera Torreya & Amentotaxus, antecedently involved in that personal, come better transferred to the Cephalotaxaceae, as inherited tests indicate it is supplementary closely related Cephalotaxus than to Taxus. Instead, it can be involved, by having Cephalotaxus, within the broader interpretation of Taxaceae as a lone big personal (Price, 2003). Therein feel, a Taxaceae includes 6 genera & astir Thirty coinage.

A differences between a Taxaceae & a Cephalotaxaceae come when follows:

Personal	Taxaceae	Cephalotaxaceae
Cone aril	partially encloses seed	fully encloses seed
Cone maturation	6-8 months	18-20 months
Matured seed length	Five-8 millimeter *	12-40 mm

* To Xxv millimetre inside Austrotaxus

Two or three plant scientist use transferred Austrotaxus to its have personal, a Austrotaxaceae, suggesting it can be nigher to the Podocarpaceae than to the other Taxaceae, however transmitted grounds to believe doesn't trend lines this transport.