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Celastraceae
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JANAS 30(2)
PLANTS: Shrubs or small trees, sometimes thorny, often glabrous or nearly so. LEAVES: alternate or opposite, simple, persistent (or scale-like and caducous), sessile to shortly petiolate; stipules small and caducous, or absent. FLOWERS: perfect, small, actinomorphic, 4- or 5-merous, hypogynous or slightly perigynous; sepals connate to distinct, usually imbricate; petals distinct, sometimes imbricate; stamens distinct, seated on or outside the usually well-developed nectary disk (this rudimentary or absent in Canotia), typically in a single series alternate with the petals; ovary usually 2-5-loculed; style terminal, generally short, with a capitate or lobed stigma. FRUIT: a capsule (sometimes indehiscent). SEEDS: often arillate. NOTES: About 50 genera and 800 spp., pantropical (especially in se Asia) and with a lesser number of genera and spp. in temperate regions. Species of Euonymous and other genera from this family are cultivated as ornamentals. Glossopetalon [Forsellesia], formerly included in the Celastraceae, is now assigned to the Crossosomataceae. REFERENCES: Brasher, Jeffrey W. 1998. Celastraceae J. Ariz. - Nev. Acad. Sci. 30(2): 57.
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Acanthothamnus aphyllus
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Anthodon decussatum
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Brexia madagascariensis
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Canotia holacantha
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Canotia wendtii
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Cassine aethiopica
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Cassine caroliniana
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Cassine eucleaeformis
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Cassine laneana
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Cassine orientalis
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Cassine peragua
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Cassine quadrangulata
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Cassine xylocarpa
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Catha edulis
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Celastrus alatus
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Celastrus angulatus
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Celastrus annamensis
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Celastrus buxifolius
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Celastrus edulis
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Celastrus flagellaris
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Celastrus franchetianus
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Celastrus gemmata
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Celastrus gemmatus
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Celastrus glaucophyllus
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Celastrus grenadensis
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Celastrus hindsii
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Celastrus hirsutus
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Celastrus hypoleucus
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Celastrus kusanoi
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Celastrus lenticellatus
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Celastrus liebmannii
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Celastrus monospermus
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Celastrus oblanceifolius
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Celastrus orbiculata
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Celastrus orbiculatus
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Celastrus paniculatus
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Celastrus pringlei
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Celastrus punctatus
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Celastrus rosthornianus
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Celastrus scandens
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Celastrus stylosus
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Celastrus subspicatus
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Celastrus tetramerus
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Celastrus vulcanicola
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Cheiloclinium articulatum
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Cheiloclinium belizense
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Cheiloclinium cognatum
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Cheiloclinium gleasonianum
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Cheiloclinium hippocrateoides
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Cheiloclinium serratum
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