- Phillyrea
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Phillyrea 
Phillyrea latifolia Scientific classification Kingdom: Plantae (unranked): Angiosperms (unranked): Eudicots (unranked): Asterids Order: Lamiales Family: Oleaceae Tribe: Oleeae Genus: Phillyrea
L.Species See text
Phillyrea is a genus of two species of flowering plants in the family Oleaceae, native to the Mediterranean region, the Canary Islands and Madeira.
They are evergreen shrubs or small trees growing to 3-9 m tall, related to Ligustrum, Olea and Osmanthus. The leaves are in opposite pairs, small, leathery, ovate to lanceolate, 2-6 cm long and 0.5-2 cm broad. The flowers are small, greenish-white, produced in short clusters. The fruit is a drupe containing a single seed.
- Species
- Phillyrea angustifolia L.
- Phillyrea latifolia L. (syn. P. media)
A third species P. decora from the Caucasus is now usually treated in the genus Osmanthus as Osmanthus decorus.
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