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Euonymus Linn., Sp.Pl. 197. 1753. Gen.Pl.ed.5. 91.1754; Lawson in Hook. f., Fl.Brit.Ind. 1:607.1875; Blakelock in Kew Bull.232.1951; Ding Hou in van Steenis, Fl.Males.ser.1.6 (2):245.1962; Brandis & J.L. Stewart, For.Fl.N.W. & C.Ind.77.1874; Brandis, Ind. Trees, 157.1906; Parker, For.Fl.Punj.77.1918.
Trees or shrubs, the latter sometimes scandent. Leaves oppsite; stipules caducous. Flowers bisexual, 4-5-merous. Calyx flat or recurved. Disc broad, fleshy, 4-5-lobed. Petals 4-5, rounded, spreading, often with coloured veins. Stamens 4-5, inserted on the disc. Ovary sunken in the disc; style short. Fruit a capsule, 3-5-lobed, angled or winged, rarely echinate, dehiscence loculicidal. Seeds 1-3 in each cell, enclosed in a fleshy aril.
A large subcosmopolitan genus of c. 176 species in the Himalayas in Pakistan and India, China, Japan, Malayasia, Europe and N. America. Represented in Pakistan by 5 species, of these E. japonicus is cultivated.
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Climbing shrub. Capsule echinate |
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Euonymus echinatus |
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Trees or erect shrubs. Capsule not echinate |
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Leaves evergreen, thick and glossy |
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Leaves deciduous, thin and not glossy |
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Leaves lanceolate to broadly lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, serrate. Capsule winged |
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Euonymus pendulus |
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Leaves usually obovate-spathulate or orbiculate,
crenate; crenations with stiff hairs. Capsule globose and slightly lobed |
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Euonymus japonicus |
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Bark corky, pale grey. Leaves uniser-rate. Capsule deeply lobed |
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Euonymus hamiltonianus |
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Bark smooth, dark grey. Leaves biserrate Capsule winged |
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Euonymus fimbriatus |
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Lower Taxa
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