Maytenus abbottii A.E.van Wyk
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Maytenus abbottii is a species of plant in the family Celastraceae. It is endemic to South Africa. It is threatened by habitat loss.
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About the genus · Maytenus
Maytenus 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. More on Wikipedia ›
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Photographs: Sunčana Bradley, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (3).
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Similar habitat climate Not checked: GBIF's records were not asked (why, under the name), and the nearest habitat climates are read from the climate they give.
Other Maytenus 17 in the reference
Maytenus acuminata Celastraceae Photo: Public domain, Abu Shawka
Maytenus boaria Mayten Photo: CC BY, nitsuga74
Maytenus chubutensis Celastraceae Photo: CC BY, Ariadna Tripaldi
Maytenus disticha Celastraceae Photo: CC BY, Ezequiel Racker
Maytenus ilicifolia Celastraceae Photo: Public domain, author not stated Maytenus laevigata Celastraceae 
Maytenus laxiflora Celastraceae Photo: CC BY, Nicolás Baresch Uribe
Maytenus magellanica Magellan's mayten Photo: CC0, author not stated Maytenus meridensis Celastraceae 
Maytenus oleoides Celastraceae Photo: Public domain, Abu Shawka Maytenus oleosa Celastraceae Maytenus orbicularis Celastraceae all 18 ›Names & registers
The record
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Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
kew.names answeredas of 2026-06-04Kew's entry Maytenus abbottii A.E.van Wyk (plant_name_id 2360128), read from Kew's names filegbif.species not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not askedgbif.synonyms not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not askedgbif.vernacular not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not askedgbif.occurrences not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not askedwcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04climate not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked, and the habitat climate is read only from themwikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22found by Kew's IPNI identifier 904658-1, POWO 904658-1wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22inat.photos.wild not askedinat.photos.cultivated not askedgbif.media not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not askedcommons answeredasked 2026-10-22openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshotEvery 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.