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Celastraceae 
Oriental Staff Vine (Celastrus orbiculatus) Scientific classification Kingdom: Plantae (unranked): Angiosperms (unranked): Eudicots (unranked): Rosids Order: Celastrales Family: Celastraceae
R.Br.Subfamilies Celastroideae
Hippocrateoideae
Salacioideae
Stackhousioideae[1]
Fruit of Loeseneriella africana
Inflorescence of Gymnosporia senegalensisThe Celastraceae (or staff vine or bittersweet family; syn. Canotiaceae, Chingithamnaceae, Euonymaceae, Goupiaceae, Lophopyxidaceae, and Siphonodontaceae in Cronquist system), is a family of about 90-100 genera and 1,300 species of vines, shrubs and small trees, belonging to the order Celastrales. The great majority of the genera are tropical, with only Celastrus (the staff vines), Euonymus (the spindles) and Maytenus widespread in temperate climates.
There are about 100 genera. Common names for some of them are as follows.
- Canotia - Crucifixion Thorn
- Catha – Khat
- Celastrus – Staff vine or Staff tree
- Euonymus – Spindle
- Maytenus – Maiten
A complete list of the genera is given below.
Genera
- Acanthothamnus
- Allocassine
- Anthodon
- Apatophyllum
- Apodostigma
- Arnicratea
- Bequaertia
- Brassiantha
- Brexia
- Brexiella
- Campylostemon
- Canotia
- Cassine
- Catha
- Celastrus
- Cheiloclinium
- Crocoxylon
- Crossopetalum
- Cuervea
- Denhamia
- Dicarpellum
- Elachyptera
- Elaeodendron
- Empleuridium
- Euonymus
- Euonymopsis
- Fraunhofera
- Gloveria[disambiguation needed
] - Glyptopetalum
- Goniodiscus
- Gyminda
- Gymnosporia
- Hartogiella
- Hartogiopsis
- Hedraianthera
- Helictonema
- Hexaspora
- Hippocratea
- Hylenaea
- Hypsophila[disambiguation needed ]
- Kokoona
- Lauridia
- Loeseneriella
- Lophopetalum
- Lydenburgia
- Macgregoria[disambiguation needed ]
- Maurocenia
- Maytenus
- Menepetalum
- Microtropis
- Monimopetalum
- Mortonia
- Moya[disambiguation needed ]
- Mystroxylon
- Orthosphenia
- Paxistima
- Peripterygia
- Peritassa
- Plagiopteron
- Platypterocarpus
- Plenckia
- Pleurostylia
- Polycardia
- Prionostemma
- Pristimera
- Psammomoya
- Pseudocatha
- Pseudosalacia
- Ptelidium
- Pterocelastrus
- Putterlickia
- Quetzalia
- Reissantia
- Robsonodendron
- Rzedowskia
- Salacia
- Salacighia
- Salaciopsis
- Salvadoropsis
- Sarawakodendron
- Scandivepres
- Schaefferia
- Semialarium
- Simicratea
- Simirestis
- Siphonodon
- Stackhousia
- Tetrasiphon
- Thyrosalacia
- Tontelea
- Torralbasia
- Tricerma
- Tripterococcus
- Tripterygium
- Tristemonanthus
- Wimmeria
- Xylonymus
- Zinowiewia
References
- ^ "Celastraceae R. Br., nom. cons.". Germplasm Resources Information Network. United States Department of Agriculture. 2003-01-17. http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/family.pl?235. Retrieved 2009-04-16.
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