What is Celastraceae?
{{taxobox |name = Celastraceae |image = Celastrus orbiculatus.jpg |image_caption = [[Oriental Staff Vine]] (''Celastrus orbiculatus'') |regnum = [[Plant]]ae |unranked_divisio = [[Angiosperms]] |unranked_classis = [[Eudicots]] |unranked_ordo = [[Rosids]] |ordo = [[Celastrales]] |familia = '''Celastraceae''' |familia_authority = [[Robert Brown (botanist)|R.Br.]] |subdivision_ranks = [[Family (biology)|Subfamilies]] |subdivision = [[Celastroideae]]<br> [[Hippocrateoideae]]<br> [[Salacioideae]]<br> [[Stackhousioideae]] }} '''Celastraceae''' the staff-tree family, in the order [[Celastrales]], comprising about 55 genera of woody vines, shrubs, and trees, native in tropical and temperate zones but best known for ornamental forms of the genera ''[[Euonymus]]'' and ''[[Celastrus]]'' (bittersweet). Fruit of the family is often colourful. Leaves are frequently leathery and flowers are small, with four to five sepals and petals; alternating between the petals, stamens rise from a usually conspicuous nectar disk. {{biology-stub}} [[category:Celastrales]] [[Category:Plant families]]