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Shrub (sometimes climbing), tree, sometimes thorny, generally glabrous
Leaves simple, opposite or alternate, ephemeral to persistent, subsessile or petioled; veins pinnate
Inflorescence: cluster, cyme, raceme, panicle, or flower solitary, axillary or terminal, bracted
Flower generally bisexual, radial, small; hypanthium ± cup-shaped; sepals 45; petals (0)45, free; stamens 45, alternate petals, attached below or to rim of disk; ovary superior or ± embedded in disk, 25-chambered, placentas axile or basal, style generally 1, short, stigma ± head-like, 25-lobed
Fruit: capsule, winged achene, berry, drupe, or nutlet, often 1-chambered
Seed generally 1 per chamber, arilled
Genera in family: 50 genera, 800 species: worldwide, especially se Asia; some ornamental (Celastrus, Euonymus, Maytenus,, Paxistima )
Reference: [Brizicky 1964 J Arnold Arbor 45:206234]
Shrub, erect, scabrous
Leaves alternate, persistent, ascending, leathery, entire; margin generally thicker
Inflorescence: panicle, terminal; flowers many
Flower: parts in 5's; hypanthium obconic; petals white; disk fused to hypanthium except at top, fleshy, ± white, becoming red-purple; ovary superior, narrowly ovoid, stigma lobes 5, slender, spreading
Fruit: nutlets 5, oblong-cylindric, light brown
Seed 1 per nutlet, straw-colored, very difficult to separate from nutlet; aril 0
Species in genus: 5 species: sw US, Mex
Etymology: (S.G. Morton, 19th century North America naturalist)
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Plant 312 dm, coarsely scabrous
Stem: twigs creamy white, turning gray
Leaf: petiole ± 01 mm; blade 616 mm, ovate to round, from above transversely concave and longitudinally convex, base rounded to tapered, tip round to acute, sometimes with small point
Inflorescence 865 mm, 623 mm wide
Flower: hypanthium 1.52 mm; sepals 12.3 mm, tips often acute, keeled; petals 2.23 mm, ovate
Fruit 57 mm, glabrous
Ecology: Limestone slopes, canyon bottoms
Elevation: 9002100 m.
Bioregional distribution: Desert Mountains (Inyo, ne San Bernardino cos.)
Distribution outside California: to sw Utah
Flowering time: MarMay
Horticultural information: DRN, DRY: 1, 2, 3, 10; DFCLT.