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Volume IV (1988) - Flora of New Zealand Naturalised Pteridophytes, Gymnosperms, Dicotyledons
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Euonymus L.

EUONYMUS L.

Evergreen or deciduous, shrubs or small trees, occasionally creeping or ascending by rootlets. Lvs usually opposite, petiolate, glabrous. Fls 4-5-merous, in axillary cymes. Fr. a 4-5-celled capsule, usually lobed or winged. Seeds 0-2 per cell, usually covered by a brightly coloured fleshy aril.

Key

1
Deciduous shrub to small tree; fr. 4-angled
2
Evergreen shrub to small tree or scrambler to climber; fr. globose
3
2
Young shoots quadrangular, not conspicuously winged; aril orange
1 *europaeus
Young shoots with 4, conspicuous, corky wings; aril deep red
*phellomanus ζ
3
Erect shrub to small true; twigs smooth, often wrinkled when dry
2 *japonicus
Woody scrambler or climber; twigs minutely warty
*fortunei ζ

176 spp., cosmopolitan with the greatest number in Himalaya, China and Japan. Naturalised spp. 4.

Fig. 53. Dehiscing fr. of Euonymus spp. A E. europaeus; B E. japonicus. © All rights reserved. [Image: 4X5D]
Fig. 53. Dehiscing fr. of Euonymus spp. A E. europaeus; B E. japonicus. © All rights reserved. [Image: 4X5D]
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