Vasilis Teodoridis:
Celastraceae | Celastrus
21. Celastrus stylosus Wallich in Roxburgh; Fl. Ind. 2: 401. 1824.
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Twining shrubs; 3-5 m tall; branchlets generally glabrous; rarely setaceous; winter buds small; ovate-globose; ca. 2 mm wide. Petiole 1-1.8 cm; leaf blade rectangular-elliptic; rarely rectangular-obovate; 6.5-12.5 x 3-6.5 cm; abaxially pubescent along veins; glabrous later; adaxially slightly green or light brown when dry; often membranous during flowering and leathery in fruit; base cuneate; widely cuneate to obtuse-orbicular; margin obtusely serrate; apex shortly acuminate to acute; secondary veins (4 or)5-7 pairs. Cymes axillary and lateral; 3-7-flowered; rachis 7-20 mm; pedicels 5-7 mm; with very short yellowish white setae; jointed below middle. Sepals subovate or subelliptic; 1-2 mm; margin slightly erose; petals rectangular-obovate; 3.5-4 x ca. 2 mm; margin erose. Disk shallowly cupuliform; lobe semicircular or approximately obtuse-triangular. Stamens slightly shorter than corolla; filament glabrous or papillate proximally; staminodes in female flowers ca. 1 mm. Pistils ampullaceous; ca. 3 mm; degenerate in male flowers; stigma revolute. Capsule globose; 6.5-8 mm wide; fructiferous stipe and fruit stipe glabrous; often with elliptic lenticels. Seeds adaxially flat; slightly crescentiform; 4.5-5.5 x 1.5-2 mm. Fl. Mar-May; fr. Aug-Oct.
Forests; mountain slopes; 300-2500 m. Anhui; Chongqing; Guangdong; Guangxi; Guizhou; Hubei; Hunan; Jiangsu; Jiangxi; Sichuan; Yunnan; Zhejiang [Bhutan; India; Myanmar; Nepal; N Thailand].