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Credits

Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles

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'Stauntonia' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/stauntonia/). Accessed 2026-04-18.

Family

  • Lardizabalaceae

Synonyms

  • Holboellia Wall.

Glossary

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Credits

Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles

Recommended citation
'Stauntonia' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/stauntonia/). Accessed 2026-04-18.

Stauntonia

The male flowers of Stauntonia coriacea are produced in a group of corymbs at the end of the previous year's growth or in the leaf-axils. Nice Botanic Garden (Acc num 14579), France. 3 April 2009. Image Guillaume Mamdy.

Editorial Note

Bean treated several species under the former segregate genus Holboellia, united with Stauntonia by Christenhusz (2012).

Stauntonia sensu Christenhusz (2012) includes twenty-nine species in E. and S.E. Asia; the species formerly assigned to Holboellia have with free (not united) stamens, fleshy sepals, and minute petals (absent in Stauntonia). The name commemorates Sir George Staunton, who accompanied Lord Macartney on his famous embassy to China in 1792.

Stauntonia

The white tinged flowers of Stauntonia hexaphylla are fragrant, unisexual, produced three to seven together in a raceme. Meise Botanic garden (accession 19832659), Belgium. 29 April 2015. Image Guillaume Mamdy.

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