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Stachyurus
Sign in to saveStachyurus is the only genus in the flowering plant family Stachyuraceae, native to the Himalayas and eastern Asia. They are deciduous shrubs or small trees with pendent racemes of 4-petalled flowers which appear on the bare branches before the leaves. The plants have leaves with serrate margins.
Species
Himalayan spiketail
GENUS
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassMagnoliopsida
- OrderCrossosomatales
- FamilyStachyuraceae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 92
- With media
- 80
- Family
- Stachyuraceae
- Collections
- A, MO, NHMUK, UF, O, MNHN
- Recorded in
- China, Vietnam, Taiwan
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Stachyuraceae
- Image
- Stachyurus praecox3.jpg
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- Commons category
- Stachyurus
- taxon rank
- genus
- taxon name
- Stachyurus
- topic's main category
- Category:Stachyurus
- taxonomic type
- Stachyurus praecox
- taxon common name
- 旌节花属
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Species list
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Stachyurus is the only genus in the flowering plant family Stachyuraceae, native to the Himalayas and eastern Asia. They are deciduous shrubs or small trees with pendent racemes of 4-petalled flowers which appear on the bare branches before the leaves. The plants have leaves with serrate margins.
Pendunculagin, casuarictin, strictinin, casuarinin and casuariin are ellagitannins found in species in this genus.
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