{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}} {{Automatic taxobox |image = Coriaria ruscifolia.jpg |image_caption = ''Coriaria ruscifolia'' |parent_authority = Mirb.<ref name=APGIII2009>{{Cite journal |last=Angiosperm Phylogeny Group |year=2009 |title=An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG III |journal=Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society |volume=161 |issue=2 |pages=105–121 |doi=10.1111/j.1095-8339.2009.00996.x |doi-access=free |hdl=10654/18083 |hdl-access=free }}</ref> |taxon = Coriaria |authority = L. 1753 |type_species = ''Coriaria myrtifolia'' |type_species_authority = L.<ref>Lectotype designated by M. L. Green, Prop. Brit. Bot. 192 (1929).</ref><ref name=s/> |range_map = Coriaria distribution.svg |range_map_caption= ''Coriaria'' distribution |subdivision_ranks = Species |subdivision = 14; see text. |synonyms_ref = <ref name=ss/> |synonyms = *''Heterocladus'' <small>Turcz.</small> *''Heterophylleia'' <small>Turcz.</small> }}
'''''Coriaria''''' is the sole genus in the family '''Coriariaceae''', which was described by Linnaeus in 1753.<ref name=s>[http://www.tropicos.org/Name/40014227 Tropicos, Coriaria L.]</ref><ref>[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/359058#page/479/mode/1up Linnaeus, Carl von. 1753. Species Plantarum 2: 1037] in Latin</ref> It includes 14 species<ref name="Christenhusz-Byng2016">{{cite journal |author1=Christenhusz, M. J. M. |author2=Byng, J. W. |name-list-style=amp | year = 2016 | title = The number of known plants species in the world and its annual increase | journal = Phytotaxa | volume = 261 | pages = 201–217 | url = http://biotaxa.org/Phytotaxa/article/download/phytotaxa.261.3.1/20598 | doi = 10.11646/phytotaxa.261.3.1 | issue = 3 | publisher = Magnolia Press | doi-access = free }}</ref> of small trees, shrubs and subshrubs, with a widespread but disjunct distribution across warm temperate regions of the world, occurring as far apart as the Mediterranean region, southern and eastern Asia, New Zealand (where some are alpine species), the Pacific Ocean islands, and Central and South America.<ref name=ss>[http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=47201 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families]</ref><ref>Davidse, G., M. Sousa Sánchez, S. Knapp & F. Chiang Cabrera. 2014. Saururaceae a Zygophyllaceae. 2(3): ined. In G. Davidse, M. Sousa Sánchez, S. Knapp & F. Chiang Cabrera (eds.) Flora Mesoamericana. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México</ref><ref>[http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=10218%20 Flora of China Vol. 11 Page 333 <big>马桑科</big> ma sang ke Coriariaceae]</ref>
The leaves are opposite or in whorls, simple, {{convert|2–9|cm|abbr=off}} long, without stipules. The flowers are borne in racemes 2–30 cm long, each flower small, greenish, with five small petals. The fruit is a small and shiny black (occasionally yellow or red) berry-like swollen corolla, highly poisonous in several species, though those of ''C. terminalis'' are edible. At least a few members of this genus are non-legume nitrogen fixers.
The Mediterranean species ''C. myrtifolia'' is known as '''redoul''', and the several New Zealand species are known by the Māori name of '''tutu'''.
The South American species ''C. ruscifolia'' is an evergreen climber known as '''deu''' or '''huique''', and is used in southern Chile to make rat poison.
==Species== ''Coriaria'' comprises the following species:<ref name="PlantList">{{cite web | url = http://www.theplantlist.org/1.1/browse/A/Coriariaceae/Coriaria/ | title = The Plant List entry for ''Coriaria'' | date = September 2013 | website = The Plant List, v.1.1 | publisher = Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and the Missouri Botanical Garden | access-date = 14 December 2020}}</ref><ref name="POWO">{{cite web | url = https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:12042-1 | author=Govaerts R | website = Plants of the World Online | title = ''Coriaria'' L. | publisher=Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew | access-date = 14 December 2020}}</ref> {{Columns-list|colwidth=30em| * ''Coriaria angustissima'' <small>Hook.f.</small> - New Zealand (South I + Stewart I) * ''Coriaria arborea'' <small>Linds.</small> - New Zealand (South I, North I, Chatham Is, Kermadec Is) <!-- Coriaria cuneifolia was reclassified as Saurauia serrata. --> * ''Coriaria duthiei'' <small>D.K.Singh & Pusalkar</small> - W Himalayas (N Pakistan + Kashmir, N India) * ''Coriaria japonica'' <small>A.Gray</small> - Japan, Taiwan ** subsp. ''intermedia'' <small>(Matsum.) T.C.Huang</small> ** subsp. ''japonica'' <small>A.Gray</small> * ''Coriaria kingiana'' <small>Colenso</small> - New Zealand (North I) * ''Coriaria kweichovensis'' <small>Hu</small> - S China, Himalayas <!-- Coriaria luracparva is a junior synonym of Coriaria lurida. --> * ''Coriaria lurida'' <small>Kirk</small> - New Zealand (South I, North I) <!-- Coriaria microphylla was reclassified as Coriaria ruscifolia subsp. microphylla. --> * ''Coriaria myrtifolia'' <small>L.</small> - Spain, France, Italy, Algeria, Morocco, Greece, Tunisia<ref>[http://luirig.altervista.org/flora/taxa/index1.php?scientific-name=coriaria+myrtifolia Altervista Flora Italiana, Sommacco a foglie di mirto, Tanner's Sumac, ''Coriaria myrtifolia'' L.] includes photos and European distribution map</ref> <!-- Coriaria napalensis is a misspelling of Coriaria nepalensis. --> * ''Coriaria nepalensis'' <small>Wall.</small> - Himalayas * ''Coriaria plumosa'' <small>W.R.B.Oliv.</small> - New Zealand (South I, North I) * ''Coriaria pottsiana'' <small>W.R.B.Oliv.</small> - New Zealand (North I) * ''Coriaria pteridoides'' <small>W.R.B.Oliv.</small> - New Zealand (North I) * ''Coriaria ruscifolia'' <small>L.</small> - Latin America from C Mexico to S Argentina + S Chile; New Guinea. ** subsp. ''microphylla'' <small>(Poir.) J.E.Skog</small> ** subsp. ''ruscifolia'' <small>L.</small> * ''Coriaria sarmentosa'' {{small|G.Forst.}} - New Zealand <!-- Coriaria summicola is a junior synonym of Coriaria japonica. --> * ''Coriaria terminalis'' <small>Hemsl.</small> - Sichuan, Tibet, Nepal, Sikkim, Bhutan }}
==Hybrids== The following hybrids have been described:<ref name="PlantList"/><ref name="POWO"/> * ''Coriaria'' × ''sarlurida'' <small>Cockayne & Allan</small> - New Zealand * ''Coriaria'' × ''sarmangusta'' <small>Allan</small> - New Zealand
==Fossil record== Coriariaceae fossils as pollen and seeds, are known from the Miocene of Europe.<ref>Else Marie Friis, Peter R. Crane, Kaj Raunsgaard Pedersen (2011). ''Early Flowers and Angiosperm Evolution''. Cambridge University Press. {{ISBN| 0521592836}}</ref> The discovery of pollen grains from Early Campanian (ca. 82 Mya) deposits in Antarctica, which were described as ''Coriaripites goodii'', expand the family’s fossil record and represent the so far oldest fossil of the order Cucurbitales.<ref>{{cite journal |vauthors=Renner SS, Barreda VD, Tellería MC, Palazzesi L, Schuster TM | year = 2020 | title = The evolution of Coriariaceae (Cucurbitales) in light of a new early Campanian (ca. 82 Mya) pollen record from Antarctica | journal = Taxon | volume = 69 | issue = 1 | pages = 87–99 | doi = 10.1002/tax.12203| doi-access = free }}</ref>
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Category:Coriariaceae Category:Cucurbitales genera Category:Botanical taxa named by Carl Linnaeus