What are the characteristics and common species of plants in the Taxaceae family?

Latin scientific name: Taxaceae

English name: Yew Family, Taxus Family

Introduction:

Evergreen trees or shrubs. Leaves arranged spirally or decussate, linear or lanceolate. Dioecious, rarely monoecious. Male cones solitary in leaf axils or bract axils, or arranged in spike-like strobili clustered at the tips of branches; stamens numerous, each with 3-9 anthers, anther locules dehiscing longitudinally, pollen without air sacs; female cones solitary or in pairs opposite in leaf axils or bract axils, base with numerous imbricate or decussate bracts, ovule 1, erect, borne at the apex of the cone axis or in the bract axil at the apex of a lateral short axis, base with a radially symmetrical disc-shaped or funnel-shaped aril. Seeds drupe-like or nut-like, wholly or partly enclosed by a fleshy aril, endosperm abundant, cotyledons 2.

5 genera and about 23 species; except for Austrotaxus spicata Campton, 1 genus and 1 species native to the Southern Hemisphere, the rest are all native to the Northern Hemisphere. China has 4 genera, 12 species, 1 variety and 1 cultivated variety.