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Maytenus

{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}}

{{Automatic taxobox

|image = Maitén.JPG

|image_caption = Maytenus boaria, a tree of temperate climates

|taxon = Maytenus

|authority = Molina (1782)

|subdivision_ranks = Species

|subdivision = 176; see text

|subdivision_ref = [https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:30088764-2 Maytenus Molina]. Plants of the World Online Retrieved 25 November 2023.

|type_species = Maytenus boaria

|type_species_authority = Molina (1782)

|synonyms =

  • Boaria {{small|A.DC. (1844)}}
  • Euthalis {{small|Banks & Sol. ex Hook.f. (1845)}}
  • Haenkea {{small|Ruiz & Pav. (1794), nom. illeg.}}
  • Monteverdia {{small|A.Rich. (1846)}}
  • Moya {{small|Griseb. (1874)}}
  • Scytophyllum {{small|Eckl. & Zeyh. (1835), nom. rej.}}
  • Senacia {{small|Lam. (1793)}}
  • Tricerma {{small|Liebm. (1853)}}

|synonyms_ref =

}}

Maytenus {{IPAc-en|ˈ|m|eɪ|t|ɛ|n|ə|s}}Sunset Western Garden Book, 1995:606–607 is a genus of flowering plants in the family Celastraceae. Members of the genus are distributed throughout Central and South America, Southeast Asia, Micronesia, and Australasia, the Indian Ocean and Africa. They grow in a very wide variety of climates, from tropical to subpolar. The traditional circumscription of Maytenus was paraphyletic, so many species have been transferred to Denhamia and Gymnosporia.{{cite journal|title=Delimitation of the Segregate Genera of Maytenus s.l. (Celastraceae) Based on Morphological and Molecular Characters|last1=McKenna|first1=Miles J.|last2=Simmons|first2=Mark P.|date=October 1, 2011|journal=Systematic Botany|volume=36|issue=4|pages=922–932|doi=10.1600/036364411X604930|last3=Bacon|first3=Christine D.|last4=Lombardi|first4=Julio A.}}{{cite journal |title=Systematics of New World Maytenus (Celastraceae) and a New Delimitation of the Genus|last1=Biral |first1=Leonardo|last2=Simmons|first2=Mark P.|date=December 18, 2017|journal=Systematic Botany|volume=42|issue=4|pages=680–693 |issn=0363-6445|doi=10.1600/036364417X696456|last3=Smidt|first3=Eric C.|last4=Tembrock |first4=Luke R.|last5=Bolson |first5=Mônica|last6=Archer|first6=Robert H. |last7=Lombardi|first7=Julio A.|s2cid=53121214 }}

Species

176 species are accepted.

Undescribed species:

=Formerly placed here=

Cultivation and uses

Maytenus boaria and Maytenus magellanica are the most known species in Europe and the United States because these are the most cold-tolerant trees of this mostly tropical genus. The bark of Maytenus krukovii has a variety of documented medicinal properties; it is also sometimes admixed into decoctions of ayahuasca.

References

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External links

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  • [http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=5&taxon_id=119916 Flora of Pakistan]

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Category:Celastrales genera

Category:Ayahuasca

Category:Taxonomy articles created by Polbot

Category:Long stubs with short prose

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