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Celastrus rosthornianus; photograph Krzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SAKrzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Celastrus rosthornianus Loes.

Celastraceae · China South-Central, China North-Central +2

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About the genus · Celastrus

Celastrus, commonly known as staff vine, staff tree or bittersweet, is a genus of the family Celastraceae; it contains over 40 species of shrubs and vines, which have a wide distribution in East Asia, Australasia, Africa, and the Americas.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Celastrus", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: Only 1 distinct land cell of the climate grid holds an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope. 266 of the 267 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or to no stated accuracy and fewer than three decimals or by something other than a person's observation, and cannot place a climate cell, though they count for the map and its marker.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeChina South-Central, China North-Central, China Southeast, Vietnam · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Map marker30.295, 109.479 · in the densest population, 179 records (67% of those in range)
Kew's description“climbing shrub or liana” · “temperate” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 267 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 110 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 16 km away. 6 records outside the WCVP native range not used. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 266 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stay on the map but off the climate.
How this section is made
The map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population inside the densest 4° block of the 267 in-range records; it decides nothing. Records outside the native range, living specimens and records marked introduced are not used; which records count.

Other Celastrus 12 in the reference

Celastrus angulatus Celastraceae Celastrus flagellaris Celastrus flagellaris Hooked-spine bittersweet Photo: CC BY, Tatyana Petrenko Celastrus gemmatus Chinese bittersweet Celastrus hindsii Celastrus hindsii Chinese bittersweet Photo: CC BY, Cheng-Tao LinCelastrus hypoleucus Celastrus hypoleucus Celastraceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Agnieszka Kwiecień, NovaCelastrus kusanoi Celastrus kusanoi Celastraceae Photo: CC BY, Licheng ShihCelastrus orbiculatus Celastrus orbiculatus Oriental bittersweet Photo: CC0, author not statedCelastrus paniculatus Celastrus paniculatus Oriental bittersweet Photo: CC BY, Ravuri Krishna ChaitanyaCelastrus punctatus Celastrus punctatus Coastal oriental bittersweet Photo: CC BY, Cheng-Te Hsu Celastrus rugosus Celastraceae Celastrus scandens Celastrus scandens Staffvine Photo: CC BY, Marilynn MillerCelastrus subspicatus Celastrus subspicatus White Vine Photo: CC BY-SA, Greg Tasney

Names & registers

Also known as Celastrus cavaleriei; Celastrus reticulatus. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Celastraceae
Described by
Loes.
Native to
China South-Central, China North-Central, China Southeast +1
Wild records
267 in range · 110 open

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-21
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-21
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-21
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-21names fetched 2026-10-21
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21; 6 records within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (3 at a botanic garden or arboretum, 3 at a zoo; Wikidata's list)
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-21only 1 distinct land cell of the climate grid holds an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-21
Wikipedia wikipedia nothing to reportasked 2026-10-21
iNaturalist taxon inat.taxon not asked
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild not asked
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media nothing to reportasked 2026-10-21
Wikimedia Commons commons answeredasked 2026-10-21
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 23 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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