Euonymus chloranthoides Yang

Species

Angiosperms > Celastrales > Celastraceae > Euonymus

Characteristics

Evergreen shrubs, ca. 1 m tall; branches terete, young twigs with 4 striae or angles. Petiole sturdy, 1-2 mm or subsessile; leaf blade thinly leathery, obovate, oblong-obovate, or elliptic to oblong-elliptic, 8-12.5 × 2.5-5 cm, base attenuate to broadly attenuate, margin large denticulate, apex acuminate; lateral veins 7-9 pairs, redividing and webbing into veinlets. Peduncle 1-2 cm, 1 or 2 × dichotomously branched, several flowered; pedicel ca. 5 mm. Flowers 5-merous, ca. 10 × 10 mm; sepals suborbicular; petals red-pink to black-purple at maturity, obovate. Capsule obrhombic, with 5 angles and little grooves, brown or yellow-brown to red-brown, ca. 1 × 1.2 cm, 5-lobed, sometimes only 3 or 4 lobes developing. Seeds subglobose, red, partly covered by orange-red aril. Fl. May-Aug, fr. Oct-Nov.
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Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 1.0
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Germination duration (days) 220 - 365
Germination temperacture (C°) 10 - 18
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Distribution

Euonymus chloranthoides world distribution map, present in China

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:160830-1
WFO ID wfo-0000681671
COL ID 6GXTG
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Synonyms

Euonymus chloranthoides