Celastraceae

The Celastraceae, also known as the staff-vine or bittersweet family, are a family of 99 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, and Parnassia (bog-stars) found in alpine and arctic climates.

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.

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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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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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Campylostemon is a genus of flowering plants belonging to 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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Arnicratea 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.

Menepetalum 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 Dinghoua from Australia.

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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thumb|Fruit of Salacia lehmbachii, formerly placed in Hippocrateaceae Hippocrateaceae Juss. previously consisted of about 150 tropical and subtropical species of shrubs and lianes, and is now included in the family Celastraceae. Formerly it comprised the following genera:

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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.

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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Brexia is a genus of flowering plants assigned to the Celastraceae. It includes several species of dense evergreen shrubs or small trees of usually around 5  m high, with alternately set, simple, leathery leaves with a short leaf stem and lanceolate to inverted egg-shaped leaf blades. The pentamerous flowers occur in cymes. The petals are greenish white, the stamens are alternating with wide, incised staminodes. The superior ovary develops in a long-ribbed fruit. Brexia naturally grows on the coast of East Africa, on Madagascar, the Comoros and Seychelles. Opinions differ about the number

Plagiopteron suaveolens is a species of flowering plant belonging to the family Celastraceae. It is a climbing shrub or liana native to southeastern China (southwestern Guangxi), Indo-China, and Assam. It is the sole species in genus Plagiopteron.

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

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Tristemonanthus is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Celastraceae. Its native range is Cameroon, the Republic of the Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gabon, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Liberia.

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

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