| Maytenus | |
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| Maytenus boaria, a tree of temperate climates | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Celastrales |
| Family: | Celastraceae |
| Genus: | Maytenus Molina (1782) |
| Type species | |
| Maytenus boaria Molina (1782)
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| Species[1] | |
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176; see text | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Maytenus /ˈmeɪtɛnəs/[2] 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.[3][4]
- ^ a b Maytenus Molina. Plants of the World Online Retrieved 25 November 2023.
- ^ Sunset Western Garden Book, 1995:606–607
- ^ McKenna, Miles J.; Simmons, Mark P.; Bacon, Christine D.; Lombardi, Julio A. (October 1, 2011). "Delimitation of the Segregate Genera of Maytenus s.l. (Celastraceae) Based on Morphological and Molecular Characters". Systematic Botany. 36 (4): 922–932. doi:10.1600/036364411X604930.
- ^ Biral, Leonardo; Simmons, Mark P.; Smidt, Eric C.; Tembrock, Luke R.; Bolson, Mônica; Archer, Robert H.; Lombardi, Julio A. (December 18, 2017). "Systematics of New World Maytenus (Celastraceae) and a New Delimitation of the Genus". Systematic Botany. 42 (4): 680–693. doi:10.1600/036364417X696456. ISSN 0363-6445. S2CID 53121214.