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2. Euonymus echinatus Wallwfo-0000681715

in Roxb., Fl. Ind. 2: 410. 1824; Hook.f., Curtis's Bot. Mag. 54: t. 2767. 1827; M.A.Lawson in Hook.f., Fl. Brit. Ind. 1: 611. 1875; Blakelock, Kew Bull.: 274. 1951; J.S.Ma, Thaiszia 11: 63, fig. 22. 2001; J.S.Ma, Z.X.Zhang, Q.R.Liu, H.Peng & Funston in Z.Y.Wu, P.H.Raven & D.Y.Hong, Fl. China 11: 447, 2008.

Accepted Name : This is currently accepted.

Description : Shrubs, scandent or scrambling; branchlets often with tufts of aerial rootlets adhering to trees, rocks, etc. Leaves thinly coriaceous, ovate to elliptic, 2.5–5 by 1.5–3 cm, base cuneate, apex acuminate or acute, margin crenate-serrate, nerves 6–8 per side, oblique, prominent beneath, distinct above, petiole short, to ca 3 mm long. Inflorescences axillary, cymose, 1–3 times dichotomously branched, to 3 cm long; pedicels ca 10 mm long. Flowers 4-merous, yellowish white or greenish-yellow. Calyx lobes small. Petals suborbiculate, 4–10 mm in diam., crenulate. Stamens small. Ovary densely papillose at base. Fruits globose, ca 10 mm in diam., red when fresh, brownish when dry, densely covered with subulate prickles, usually 4-seeded.

Thailand : NORTHERN: Chiang Mai (Doi Chiang Dao).

Distribution : Pakistan, India, Nepal (type), Bhutan, Myanmar, China, Japan.

Ecology : In sunny place with limestone.