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Celastrus rugosus Rehder & E.H.Wilson

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

Cited as Kew's World Checklist cites it, Celastrus rugosus Rehder & E.H.Wilson: GBIF's backbone key for this page carries the name with another author, Rehder & Wilson.

No habitat climate
Photographs not checked iNaturalist was skipped (not asked) when this page was built. Not asked, or not answered, is not "none": nothing here claims there is none. Why the site says it this way.
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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: 68 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km. 68 of the 68 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, Tibet · 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 marker28.685, 103.676 · in the densest population, 52 records (76% of those in range)
Kew's description“climbing shrub” · “temperate” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 68 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 25 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 604 km away. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 68 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 68 in-range records; it decides nothing. Records outside the native range, living specimens and records marked introduced are not used; which records count.

Photographs

Not checked. iNaturalist was skipped (not asked) when this page was built; GBIF's observation records with coordinates hold none. Not a statement that none exist.

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 HsuCelastrus rosthornianus Celastrus rosthornianus Celastraceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Krzysztof Ziarnek, KenraizCelastrus 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 glaucophyllus var. rugosus. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Celastraceae
Described by
Rehder & E.H.Wilson
Native to
China South-Central, China North-Central, China Southeast +1
Wild records
68 in range · 25 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 2026-10-21GBIF's key 3791595 is Celastrus rugosus Rehder & Wilson; the page links Kew's Celastrus rugosus Rehder & E.H.Wilson, and the name is cited as Kew cites it
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
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-2168 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km
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 nothing to reportasked 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 9 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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