young shoot icon Home All plants About

Gymnosporia buxifolia (L.) Szyszył.

Species

Angiosperms > Celastrales > Celastraceae > Gymnosporia

Characteristics

Shrub or tree, up to 5 m high, with thorns, sometimes vicious. Branchlets subangular becoming terete, often with insect galls. Leaves fascicled or alternate, membranous or chartaceous; lamina obovate to obovate-rhomboid, 25-45(-80) x 8-20(-25) mm, apex obtuse, rounded, emarginate, base narrow, tapering, margins irregularly toothed, only in upper half; petioles short. Inflorescences many-flowered cymes; peduncle 10-20 mm long. Flowers whitish, unpleasantly smelling. Sepals triangular, ± 1.5 mm long, margins ciliolate. Petals elliptic-oblong, 1-3 mm long, margins laciniate. Male flowers: stamens shorter than petals. Female flowers: staminodes shorter than ovary; ovary 3-locular. Fruit a 3-valved, globose capsule, 2-5 mm long, whitish grey-brown, rugose. Seeds partially enveloped by aril.
More
Shrub or tree, up to 7 m high, armed. Spines > 20 mm long. Twigs often strongly angled or striate. Leaves fasciculate or not, blade obovate to narrowly obovate, 25-45 x 10-25 mm, base cuneate, usually decurrent on petiole, margin acutely irregularly serrulate to entire. Flowers: corolla white; Jun.-Dec. Fruit a 2-or 3(4)-locular capsule, usually yellow.
Monoecious, spiny shrub or small tree, up to 7 m tall. Leaves in tufts, obovate, toothed above. Flowers many in axillary cymes, white, foetid. Fruit a globose, warty, brown capsule.
Monoecious, spiny shrub or small tree to 7 m. Leaves in tufts, obovate, toothed above. Flowers many in axillary cymes, white, foetid. Capsules globose, warty, brown.
Life form perennial
Growth form
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality monoecy
Pollination -
Spread -
Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) 7.0
Root system -
Rooting depth (meter) -
Root diameter (meter) -
Flower color
Blooming months -
Fruit color
Fruiting months -
Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway -

Environment

Light -
Soil humidity -
Soil texture -
Soil acidity -
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

Usage

Uses animal food environmental use material medicinal social use
Edible -
Therapeutic use -
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Mode -
Germination duration (days) -
Germination temperacture (C°) -
Germination luminosity -
Germination treatment -
Minimum temperature (C°) -
Optimum temperature (C°) -
Size -
Vigor -
Productivity -

Images

Leaf

Gymnosporia buxifolia leaf picture by tembela paqula (cc-by-sa)

Distribution

Gymnosporia buxifolia world distribution map, present in Angola, Burundi, Botswana, Ethiopia, Kenya, Lesotho, Mozambique, Malawi, Namibia, Rwanda, Somalia, South Sudan, eSwatini, Tanzania, United Republic of, Uganda, South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe

Conservation status

Gymnosporia buxifolia threat status: Least Concern

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:161310-1
WFO ID wfo-0000712869
COL ID 6KVXK
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
Wikipedia (EN) Link
Wikipedia (FR)

Synonyms

Catha patens Celastrus hispanicus Celastrus humilis Celastrus schlechteri Celastrus spathephyllus Evonymoides buxifolia Gymnosporia buxifolia Gymnosporia rhombifolia Gymnosporia schlechteri Catha buxifolia Catha multiflora Catha spathyphylla Celastrus buxifolius Celastrus cymosus Celastrus empleurifolius Celastrus patens Celastrus polyanthemos Gymnosporia acanthophora Gymnosporia condensata Celastrus goniocaulis Celastrus multiflorus Celastrus multiflorus
WorldFloraDB 2024