Celastraceae genera

Euonymus is a genus of flowering plants in the staff vine family Celastraceae. Common names vary widely among different species and between different English-speaking countries, but include spindle (or spindle tree), burning-bush, strawberry-bush, wahoo, wintercreeper, or simply euonymus. It has about 140 species of deciduous and evergreen shrubs, small trees and lianas. They are mostly native to East Asia, extending to the Himalayas, and they are also distributed in Europe, Australasia, North America, and Madagascar. Fifty species are endemic to China.

The genus Parnassia, also known as grass of Parnassus or bog-stars, are flowering plants now placed in the family Celastraceae, formerly classified in Parnassiaceae or Saxifragaceae. The plants occur in arctic and alpine habitats, as well as in dune systems and fens, swamps, wet meadows, open seepage areas, moist woods, and across the Northern Hemisphere. It is actually not a grass, but an herbaceous dicot. The stalk of the plant can reach up to , the leaves up to and the petals can be up to wide. The flower has five white petals with light green venation. There are five stamens alternating wi

Celastrus, commonly known as staff vine, staff tree or bittersweet, is the type genus of the family Celastraceae; it contains over 40 species of shrubs and vines, which have a wide distribution in East Asia, Australasia, Africa, and the Americas.

Maytenus is a genus of flowering plants in the family Celastraceae. Members of the genus are distributed throughout Central and South America, Southeast Asia, Micronesia, and Australasia, the Indian Ocean and Africa. They grow in a very wide variety of climates, from tropical to subpolar. The traditional circumscription of Maytenus was paraphyletic, so many species have been transferred to Denhamia and Gymnosporia.

thumb|right|220px|Old fruit and seed of Gymnosporia tenuispina|G. tenuispina Gymnosporia is an Old World genus of plants, that comprise suffrutices, shrubs and trees. It was formerly considered congeneric with Maytenus, but more recent investigations separated it based on the presence of achyblasts (truncated branchlets) and spines, alternate leaves or fascicles of leaves, an inflorescence that forms a dichasium, mostly unisexual flowers, and fruit forming a dehiscent capsule, with an aril on the seed. It is dioecious, with male and female flowers on separate plants.

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Tripterygium is a genus of plants in the family Celastraceae. It includes three species of lianas or scrambling shrubs native to Japan, Korea, China, Taiwan, Vietnam, and Myanmar. Tripterygium wilfordii is used in Traditional Chinese medicine.

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Elaeodendron is a genus of flowering plants in the staff vine family, Celastraceae. It includes 40 species native to the tropics of the Americas, sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, Australia, and the South Pacific.

Wimmeria is a genus of shrubs to small trees in the family Celastraceae. It is named after German botanist Christian Friedrich Heinrich Wimmer (1803–1868).

Pleurostylia is a small genus of shrubs in the family Celastraceae. It includes six species native to central and Southern Africa, Madagascar and the Mascarene Islands, parts of tropical Asia, New Guinea, Queensland, and Vanuatu.

Pristimera is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Celastraceae. It includes 37 species native to tropical and subtropical regions of the Americas (Mexico to northern Argentina), tropical and southern Africa, Madagascar, India, and Borneo.

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Paxistima is a small genus of shrubs in the family Celastraceae containing two North American species.

Tontelea is a genus of plants in the family Celastraceae.

Peritassa is a genus of flowering plants in the family Celastraceae. It includes 21 species native to the tropical Americas, ranging from Guatemala to Paraguay and southern Brazil.

Gyminda (false box) is a genus of flowering plants in the family Celastraceae. It includes four species native to Mexico, Central America, Florida, and the Caribbean Islands. Gyminda fimbrillata Gyminda latifolia Gyminda orbicularis Gyminda tonduzii

Microtropis is a genus of plant in the family Celastraceae. There are about 70 species. They are trees and shrubs, evergreen or deciduous, with oppositely arranged leaves and white or yellowish flowers. Microtropis are distributed in Asia, Africa, and Central America.

Brexiella is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Celastraceae.

Elachyptera is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Celastraceae.

Stackhousia is a genus of annual and perennial plants in the family Celastraceae that are native to Australia, New Zealand, Malesia and Micronesia. The genus was first described by James Edward Smith in Transactions of the Linnean Society of London in 1798.

Denhamia is a genus of plants within the family Celastraceae, with species in Australia, New Guinea, and New Caledonia. The species inhabit a variety of environments, from rainforest to semi-arid savanna. All species grow as shrubs or small trees up to 10 metres in height. 18 species are currently accepted. Based on a molecular and morphological analysis, the genus was enlarged in 2011 to include several Australian and Pacific island species formerly classified as Maytenus – Denhamia bilocularis, D. cunninghamii, D. cupularis, D. disperma, D. fasciculiflora, D. ferdinandii, D.fournieri, and D.

Loeseneriella is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Celastraceae. The name is in honour of Ludwig Eduard Theodor Loesener (1865–1941), a German botanist who collected widely in the field in Germany and did much work on the Celastraceae. It was first described and published in the American Journal of Botany in 1941.

Evonymopsis is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Celastraceae.

Hylenaea is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Celastraceae.

Campylostemon is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Celastraceae.

Zinowiewia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Celastraceae. It includes 14 species native to the tropical Americas, ranging from northeastern Mexico to French Guiana and Bolivia.

Cheiloclinium is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Celastraceae. It includes 13 species native to the tropical Americas, ranging from central Mexico to Bolivia and southern Brazil.

Plenckia is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Celastraceae.

Lophopetalum is a genus of plants in the family Celastraceae. It includes 20 species native to tropical Asia, New Guinea, and northern Australia.

Siphonodon is a small genus of flowering plants in the family Celastraceae.

Salacighia is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Celastraceae. Its native range is Cameroon, the Central African Republic, the Republic of the Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, and Uganda.

Hippocratea is a genus of flowering plants in the family Celastraceae, usually lianas, native to tropical and subtropical North America, South America and Africa.

Ptelidium is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Celastraceae. Its native range is Madagascar.

Thyrsosalacia is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Celastraceae. Its native range is Cameroon and Gabon.

Putterlickia, variously called spikethorns, false spike thorns, mock spike thorns and bastard spike thorns, are a genus of flowering plants in the staff vine and bittersweet family Celastraceae, native to South Africa, Eswatini and Mozambique. Endophytic bacteria in their roots produce maytansine.

Pterocelastrus is a genus of flowering plants in the family Celastraceae. It includes four species native to southeastern and southern Africa, ranging from Malawi and Mozambique to Zimbabwe and South Africa.

Glyptopetalum is a genus of plant in the family Celastraceae.

Apatophyllum is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Celastraceae.

Crossopetalum, commonly known as Christmas-berries or maiden berries, is a genus of flowering plants in the family Celastraceae. It comprises about 30-40 species.

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Lydenburgia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Celastraceae. It includes two species which are endemic to South Africa.

Polycardia is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Celastraceae. Its native range is Madagascar.

Cuervea is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Celastraceae. Its native range is tropical America and Western Tropical Africa to Angola.

Hedraianthera is a genus of a sole recognised species of shrubs or small trees endemic to Australia from the family Celastraceae.

Reissantia is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Celastraceae.

Semialarium is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Celastraceae. It includes two species native to Mexico and tropical South America.

Arnicratea is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Celastraceae.

Canotia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Celastraceae. It includes two species native to northern Mexico, Arizona, and Utah. Canotia holacantha Canotia wendtii

Nicobariodendron is a genus in the family Celastraceae, with only one species, Nicobariodendron sleumeri, a tree with simple, alternately set, entire leaves, small flowers and single seed fleshy fruits. It is only known from the Nicobar Islands of India.

Quetzalia are a genus of flowering plants in the staff vine and bittersweet family Celastraceae, native to Mexico and Central America. They can be trees, shrubs or lianas. Cyrus Longworth Lundell split them off from Microtropis in 1970, overriding his own 1939 findings.

Robsonodendron is a genus of flowering plants in the family Celastraceae. It contains two species native to Eswatini and South Africa.

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Kokoona is a genus of flowering plants in the family Celastraceae. It includes ten species native to tropical Asia, ranging from the Indian Subcontinent to Indochina and Malesia.

Dicarpellum is a genus of shrubs and small trees in the family Celastraceae. The genus is endemic to New Caledonia in the Pacific and contains four species. Its closest relative is Hypsophila from Australia.

Psammomoya is a genus of plants in the family Celastraceae. The genus is endemic to Western Australia and was first described by Ludwig Diels and Ludwig Eduard Theodor Loesener in 1904, with the designated type species being Psammomoya choretroides.

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Tripterococcus brunonis is a species of flowering plant belonging to the family Celastraceae. It is a perennial or shrub endemic to Western and Southwest Australia. It is the sole species in genus Tripterococcus.

Salaciopsis is a genus of shrubs and small trees in the family Celastraceae. The genus is endemic to New Caledonia in the Pacific and contains six species.