Gymnosporia diversifolia Maxim.

Species

Angiosperms > Celastrales > Celastraceae > Gymnosporia

Characteristics

Shrubs or small trees, 1-3 m tall. Twigs spiny, pallid brown, densely covered with rust-colored punctiform short bristles, glabrescent with age. Petiole 1-3 mm; leaf blade obovate, broadly obovate, or obovate-lanceolate, 1-4.5 × 1-1.8 cm, papery, or leathery with age, base cuneate, margin crenate, apex rounded or emarginate. Cymes axillary, dichotomous; peduncle 0.4-1 cm; bracts and bracteoles shorter than ca. 1 mm. Flowers white or light yellow, 3-5 mm in diam.; sepals triangular-ovate. Ovary confluent with disk; styles absent. Capsule subobovoid, red or purple, 5-7 mm at greatest width, 4-loculed, 2-valved. Seeds ellipsoid, 3-4 mm in diam., black-brown, basally covered by aril. Fl. Jun-Sep, fr. Aug-Dec.
Life form perennial
Growth form tree
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 1.0 - 3.0
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Hardiness (USDA) 8-12

Usage

Uses medicinal
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Distribution

Gymnosporia diversifolia world distribution map, present in Argentina, China, Algeria, Indonesia, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand, Taiwan, Province of China, Uruguay, and Viet Nam

Conservation status

Gymnosporia diversifolia threat status: Least Concern

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:161332-1
WFO ID wfo-0000712898
COL ID 6L7XJ
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Synonyms

Celastrus diversifolius Gymnosporia diversifolia Gymnosporia obovata Gymnosporia tonkinensis Gymnosporia mekongensis Maytenus diversifolia Gymnosporia crassifolia Gymnosporia montana var. parvifolia