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Shrub (climbing or not), tree, thorny or not, generally glabrous.
Leaf: simple, opposite or alternate, deciduous to persistent, subsessile or petioled; veins pinnate.
Inflorescence: cluster, cyme, raceme, panicle, or 1-flowered, axillary or terminal, bracted.
Flower: generally bisexual, radial, small; hypanthium ± cup-shaped; sepals 4–5; petals (0)4–5, free; stamens 4–5, alternate petals, attached below or to rim of disk; ovary superior or ± embedded in disk, 2–5-chambered, placentas axile or basal, style generally 1, short, stigma ± head-like, 2–5-lobed.
Fruit: capsule, winged achene, berry, drupe, or nutlet, often 1-chambered.
Seed: generally 1 per chamber, arilled.
50 genera, 800 species: worldwide, especially se Asia; some ornamental (Celastrus, Euonymus, Maytenus, Paxistima). [Zhang & Simmons 2006 Syst Bot 31:122–137] —Scientific Editor: Thomas J. Rosatti.
Unabridged references: [Brizicky 1964 J Arnold Arbor 45:206–234]

Key to Celastraceae

Shrub, small tree, erect.
Stem: twig generally 4-angled, with corky ridges.
Leaf: opposite, deciduous, generally scalloped or finely toothed.
Inflorescence: axillary, few-flowered; pedicel jointed to peduncle.
Flower: parts in 5s; petals purple-brown [or ± green]; disk fused to hypanthium, flat, ± 5-lobed; stamens short, attached to disk margin; ovary embedded in disk, bumpy or warty or not, style 0 or short, stigma lobes 3–5, obscure.
Fruit: capsule, loculicidal, 3–5-valved.
Seed: brown [white, red, or black], enclosed by [orange] red aril.
180 species: especially tropical southern hemisphere. (Greek: good name)
Unabridged references: [Blakelock 1961 Kew Bull 210–290]

Plant 2–6 m.
Stem: branches slender, often climbing.
Leaf: petiole 3–15 mm; blade 3–14 cm, ovate to obovate, thin, base truncate to tapered.
Inflorescence: 1–5-flowered; peduncle 2–7 cm, slender; pedicel 5–15 mm.
Flower: sepals 1–1.5 mm, 1.5–2.5 mm wide; petals 4–6.5 mm, purple-brown, finely dotted, margin transparent; disk ± 3 mm wide.
Fruit: depressed, deeply 3-lobed, smooth.
Seed: 4–6 mm, ± brown; aril ± red. [Online Interchange]
Unabridged note: Expanded author citation: Euonymus occidentalis Nutt. ex Torr.

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Citation for the whole project: Jepson Flora Project (eds.) [year] Jepson eFlora, http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/IJM.html [accessed on month, day, year]
Citation for an individual treatment: [Author of taxon treatment] [year]. [Taxon name] in Jepson Flora Project (eds.) Jepson eFlora, [URL for treatment]. Accessed on [month, day, year].

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Chart based on elevation range in Manual and elevations and coordinates of CCH records. Data provided by the participants of the Consortium of California Herbaria. Note: About half of the CCH records include both elevation and coordinates.	Map made in collaboration with Scott Loarie. Data provided by the participants of the Consortium of California Herbaria. View all CCH records   CCH collections by month Duplicates counted once; synonyms included. Species do not include records of infraspecific taxa. Blue line denotes Manual flowering time.