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Celastraceae with Attributes

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Wikipedia Abstract

The Celastraceae (syn. Brexiaceae, Canotiaceae, Chingithamnaceae, Euonymaceae, Parnassiaceae, Siphonodontaceae, and Stackhousiaceae), are a family (the staff vine or bittersweet family) of 96 genera and 1,350 species of herbs, 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. The roughly 100 genera include (with common names for some of them):
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Genus

Canotia (canotia) (1)
Catha (catha) (1)
Celastrus (bittersweet) (2)
Crossopetalum (crossopetalum) (2)
Elaeodendron (2)
Euonymus (spindletree) (11)
Gyminda (false box) (1)
Hippocratea (1)
Maytenus (mayten) (1)
Monteverdia (3)
Mortonia (saddlebush) (4)
Paxistima (paxistima) (2)
Pleurostylia (1)
Pristimera (pristimera) (1)
Schaefferia (schaefferia) (2)
Stackhousia (1)
Torralbasia (torralbasia) (1)
Tricerma (1)

(...) = Species count

External References

Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0