| Stachyurus | |
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| Stachyurus praecox flowers. | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Crossosomatales |
| Family: | Stachyuraceae J.Agardh |
| Genus: | Stachyurus Siebold & Zucc. |
| Species | |
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Stachyurus is the only genus in the flowering plant family Stachyuraceae, [1] native to the Himalayas and eastern Asia. They are deciduous shrubs or small trees with pendent racemes of 4-petalled flowers which appear on the bare branches before the leaves. [2] The plants have leaves with serrate margins.
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Pendunculagin, casuarictin, strictinin, casuarinin and casuariin are ellagitannins found in species in this genus. [3]
Stachyurus praecox from Japan, and the slightly later-flowering S. chinensis from China, are both cultivated as ornamental plants, valued for their exceptionally early flowering periods.
