Stachyurus

Stachyurus is the only genus in the flowering plant family Stachyuraceae,^[1] 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.^[2] The plants have leaves with serrate margins.

Stachyurus
Stachyurus praecox flowers.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Rosids
Order:	Crossosomatales
Family:	Stachyuraceae J.Agardh
Genus:	Stachyurus Siebold & Zucc.
Species
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Pendunculagin, casuarictin, strictinin, casuarinin and casuariin are ellagitannins found in species in this genus.^[3]

Stachyurus praecox and the slightly later-flowering S. chinensis, from Japan and China, respectively, are both cultivated as ornamental plants elsewhere as they flower early in temperate climates.

Stachyurus chinensis

Species list

• Stachyurus chinensis
• Stachyurus coaetaneus
• Stachyurus cordatulus
• Stachyurus himalaicus
• Stachyurus obovatus
• Stachyurus praecox
• Stachyurus retusus
• Stachyurus salicifolius
• Stachyurus yunnanensis