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Spiketails
Stachyurus
Stachyurus is the only genus in the flowering plant family Stachyuraceae, native to the Himalayas and eastern Asia. They are deciduous shrubs or small trees with pendent racemes of 4-petalled flowers which appear on the bare branches before the leaves. The plants have leaves with serrate margins.
Pendunculagin, casuarictin, strictinin, casuarinin and casuariin are ellagitannins found in species in this genus.
11 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Himalayan spiketail
speciesStachyurus himalaicus
Early spiketail
speciesStachyurus praecox
Chinese spiketail
speciesStachyurus chinensis
Yunnan Spiketail
speciesStachyurus yunnanensis
Stachyurus obovatus
speciesStachyurus obovatus
Stachyurus salicifolius
speciesStachyurus salicifolius
Stachyurus macrocarpus
speciesStachyurus macrocarpus
Stachyurus retusus
speciesStachyurus retusus
Stachyurus coaetaneus
speciesStachyurus coaetaneus
Stachyurus oblongifolius
speciesStachyurus oblongifolius
Stachyurus cordatulus
speciesStachyurus cordatulus
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 379659.