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4. Euonymus sect. Ilicifolii Nakai, J. Jap. Bot. 17: 619. 1941.
冬青卫矛组 dong qing wei mao zu
Shrubs, shrublike, scandent, ascending, prostrate, or climbing on other vegetation, occasionally small trees to ca. 3 m tall, mostly evergreen, a few deciduous. Flowers usually 4-merous, occasionally 5-merous. Fruit globose, rotund or spherical, without prickles or wings, opening by 4 or 5 lobes at maturity.
Twenty species: E, S, and SE Asia, cultivated in Africa, Asia, Europe, North and South America, and Oceania; 14 species (six endemic, one introduced) in China.
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Deciduous, shrubs to small trees. |
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53 E. venosus |
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Evergreen |
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Capsule with white spots when mature |
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Capsule without white spots when mature |
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Leaves without petiole or with very short petiole, less than 3 mm, base round or cordate, lateral veins impressed adaxially and prominent abaxially; capsule without light-colored grooves when mature. |
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40 E. bockii |
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Leaves with short petiole, 4-9 mm, base cuneate, lateral veins neither impressed adaxially nor prominent abaxially; capsule with light-colored grooves when mature. |
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47 E. pseudovagans |
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Leaves small, 3-5 cm |
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Leaves large, 5-20 cm |
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Leaves triangular- or elliptic-lanceolate, with sparse and sharp denticles on margin. |
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44 E. jinyangensis |
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Leaves mainly ovate, sometimes combined with elliptic or obovate |
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Subshrubs, ascending or procumbent on ground or other vegetation; leaf blade acute or obtuse at apex. |
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41 E. fortunei |
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Shrubs to ascending subshrubs; leaf blade apex rounded, sometimes weakly acute |
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Peduncle 7-8 cm, usually with more than 20 flowers; capsule 8-10 mm in diam.. |
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50 E. tonkinensis |
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Peduncle 1-5 cm, usually with less than 7 flowers; capsule ca. 6 mm in diam.. |
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52 E. vagans |
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Peduncle more than 7 cm, usually with many flowers |
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Peduncle less than 4 cm, usually ca. 3-flowered |
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Leaves papery, secondary veins ca. 4 pairs. |
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45 E. kengmaensis |
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Leaves leathery or thinly leathery, secondary veins ca. 7 pairs |
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Leaves ovate to elliptic, densely arranged on branches or twigs, petiole 3-10 mm. |
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42 E. japonicus |
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Leaves obovate to ovate-elliptic, sparsely arranged on branches or twigs, petiole 2-4 cm. |
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43 E. hupehensis |
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Capsule purple when fresh, dark red when dry, usually clustered at top of branches. |
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51 E. vaganoides |
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Capsule pink to red when fresh, brown to red-brown when dry, axillary only |
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Flowers ca. 6 mm in diam.; capsule 5-9 mm in diam.. |
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48 E. theacola |
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Flowers ca. 5 mm in diam.; capsule ca. 8 mm in diam |
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Leaves entire and revolute on margin. |
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46 E. pallidifolius |
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Leaves crenulate to serrate on margin. |
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49 E. theifolius |
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