Celastraceae
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Trees, shrubs or woody climbers, sometimes spiny. Stipules present or 0. Leaves simple, alternate, subopposite or opposite, sometimes fasciculate on short shoots, typically glabrous and coriaceous. Flowers bisexual, polygamous or unisexual, actinomorphic, in axillary and/or terminal cymes, panicles or thyrses, sometimes with accessory branches, sometimes fasciculate or solitary. Sepals and petals (3-)4-5(-6). Disk usually present. Ovary 2-5-locular, or 1-locular by abortion. Fruit a loculicidal capsule or composed of mericarps or baccate or drupaceous or dry and indehiscent. Seeds may be arillate or winged.
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Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) Stats
Specimen Records:1629
Specimens with Sequences:2452
Specimens with Barcodes:1944
Species:449
Species With Barcodes:436
Public Records:1019
Public Species:358
Public BINs:0
Celastraceae (the staff vine or bittersweet family; syn. Canotiaceae, Chingithamnaceae, Euonymaceae, Goupiaceae, Lophopyxidaceae, and Siphonodontaceae in Cronquist system), is a family of about 90–100 genera and 1,300 species of vines, shrubs and small trees, belonging to the order Celastrales. The great majority of the genera are tropical, with only Celastrus (the staff vines), Euonymus (the spindles) and Maytenus widespread in temperate climates.
There are about 100 genera. Common names for some of them are as follows.
- Canotia – Crucifixion Thorn
- Catha – Khat
- Celastrus – Staff vine or Staff tree
- Euonymus – Spindle
- Maytenus – Maiten
A complete list of the genera is given below.
Genera[edit]
- Acanthothamnus
- Allocassine
- Anthodon
- Apatophyllum
- Apodostigma
- Arnicratea
- Bequaertia
- Brassiantha
- Brexia
- Brexiella
- Campylostemon
- Canotia
- Cassine
- Catha
- Celastrus
- Cheiloclinium
- Crocoxylon
- Crossopetalum
- Cuervea
- Denhamia
- Dicarpellum
- Elachyptera
- Elaeodendron
- Empleuridium
- Euonymus
- Euonymopsis
- Fraunhofera
- Gloveria
- Glyptopetalum
- Goniodiscus
- Gyminda
- Gymnosporia
- Hartogiella
- Hartogiopsis
- Hedraianthera
- Helictonema
- Hexaspora
- Hippocratea
- Hylenaea
- Hypsophila
- Kokoona
- Lauridia
- Loeseneriella
- Lophopetalum
- Lydenburgia
- Macgregoria
- Maurocenia
- Maytenus
- Menepetalum
- Microtropis
- Monimopetalum
- Mortonia
- Moya
- Mystroxylon
- Orthosphenia
- Parnassia
- Paxistima
- Peripterygia
- Peritassa
- Plagiopteron
- Platypterocarpus
- Plenckia
- Pleurostylia
- Polycardia
- Prionostemma
- Pristimera
- Psammomoya
- Pseudocatha
- Pseudosalacia
- Ptelidium
- Pterocelastrus
- Putterlickia
- Quetzalia
- Reissantia
- Robsonodendron
- Rzedowskia
- Salacia
- Salacighia
- Salaciopsis
- Salvadoropsis
- Sarawakodendron
- Scandivepres
- Schaefferia
- Semialarium
- Simicratea
- Simirestis
- Siphonodon
- Stackhousia
- Tetrasiphon
- Thyrosalacia
- Tontelea
- Torralbasia
- Tricerma
- Tripterococcus
- Tripterygium
- Tristemonanthus
- Wimmeria
- Xylonymus
- Zinowiewia
References[edit]
- ^ Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (2009). "An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG III" (PDF). Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 161 (2): 105–121. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8339.2009.00996.x. Retrieved 2013-07-06.
- ^ "Celastraceae R. Br., nom. cons.". Germplasm Resources Information Network. United States Department of Agriculture. 2003-01-17. Retrieved 2009-04-16.
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Hippocrateaceae Juss. previously consisted of about 150 tropical and subtropical species of shrubs and lianes, and is now included in the Celastraceae family. Formerly it comprised the following genera:
- Anthodon
- Apodostigma
- Arnicratea
- Baequaertia
- Campylostemon
- Cheiloclinium
- Cuervea
- Elachyptera
- Helictonema
- Hippocratea
- Hylenaea
- Loeseneriella
- Peritassa
- Prionostemma
- Pristimera
- Reissantia
- Salacia
- Salacighia
- Salaciopsis
- Semialarium
- Simicratea
- Simirestis
- Thyrsosalacia
- Tontelea
- Tristemonanthus
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Stackhousiaceae R.Br. is an obsolete family of plants, now merged into the Celastraceae family. When accepted, it comprised the following genera:
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