# Paliurus

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{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}}
{{Hatnote|Not to be confused with [Paliurus](/source/Paliurus%2C_Egypt), the ancient settlement in Libya now known as [Timimi](/source/Timimi)}}
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| fossil_range = {{fossil range|66|0|[Maastrichtian](/source/Maastrichtian) - recent|ref=<ref name=mobot>{{Cite web |title=Rosales|url=http://www.mobot.org/MOBOT/research/APweb/orders/rosalesweb.htm|access-date=2023-06-16 |website=www.mobot.org}}</ref>}}
| image = Paliurus spina-christi 4.jpg
| image_caption = ''[Paliurus spina-christi](/source/Paliurus_spina-christi)''
| taxon = Paliurus
| authority = [Mill.](/source/Philip_Miller)<ref name="GRIN">{{cite web |url=http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/genus.pl?8773 |title=Genus: ''Paliurus'' Mill. |work=Germplasm Resources Information Network |publisher=United States Department of Agriculture |date=2004-02-10 |access-date=2010-12-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090507014050/http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/genus.pl?8773 |archive-date=2009-05-07 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision = See text
| synonyms = ''Aubletia'' <small>Lour.</small>
| synonyms_ref = <ref name="GRIN"/>
}}

'''''Paliurus''''' is a [genus](/source/genus) of [flowering plant](/source/flowering_plant)s in the [family](/source/Family_(taxonomy)) [Rhamnaceae](/source/Rhamnaceae). The eight species are native to warm, dry regions of [Eurasia](/source/Eurasia) and [North Africa](/source/North_Africa) from [Morocco](/source/Morocco) and [Spain](/source/Spain) east to [Japan](/source/Japan) and [Taiwan](/source/Taiwan).

==Description==
They are [shrub](/source/shrub)s or small [tree](/source/tree)s growing to 3–15 m tall. The shoots are zig-zagged, with a [leaf](/source/leaf) and two [stipular](/source/stipule) [spines](/source/Thorns%2C_spines%2C_and_prickles) on the outside of each kink. The [leaves](/source/leaf) are [deciduous](/source/deciduous) or [evergreen](/source/evergreen), oval, 2–10&nbsp;cm long and 1–7&nbsp;cm broad, glossy green, with three conspicuous veins at the base, and an entire or bluntly toothed margin. The [fruit](/source/fruit) is a dry woody nutlet centred in a circular wing 1–3.5&nbsp;cm diameter.

==Ecology==

''Paliurus'' species are used as food plants by the [larva](/source/larva)e of some [Lepidoptera](/source/Lepidoptera) species including the ''[Bucculatrix](/source/Bucculatrix)'' leaf-miners ''B. albella'' (feeds exclusively on ''P. spina-christi''), ''B. paliuricola'' (feeds exclusively on ''Paliurus spp.'') and ''B. turatii'' (feeds exclusively on ''P. aculeatus'').

==Selected species==
*''[Paliurus hemsleyanus](/source/Paliurus_hemsleyanus)'' <small>Rehder ex Schirarend & Olabi</small> (Southern China)
*''[Paliurus orientalis](/source/Paliurus_orientalis)'' <small>(Franch.) Hemsl.</small> (Central China)
*''[Paliurus ramosissimus](/source/Paliurus_ramosissimus)'' <small>(Lour.) Poir.</small> (Eastern Asia)
*''[Paliurus spina-christi](/source/Paliurus_spina-christi)'' <small>Mill.</small><ref name="GRINSpecies">{{cite web |url=http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/splist.pl?8773 |title=GRIN Species Records for Paliurus |work=Germplasm Resources Information Network |publisher=United States Department of Agriculture |access-date=2010-12-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20001213110200/http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/splist.pl?8773 |archive-date=2000-12-13 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

===Formerly placed here===
*''[Dracontomelon dao](/source/Dracontomelon_dao)'' <small>(Blanco) Merr. & Rolfe</small> (as ''P. dao'' <small>Blanco</small> or ''P. edulis'' <small>Blanco</small>) 
*''[Harrisonia perforata](/source/Harrisonia_perforata)'' <small>(Blanco) Merr.</small> (''as P. perforata'' <small>Blanco</small>)<ref name="GRINSpecies"/>

==References==
{{Reflist}}
*{{cite book |first=K. D. |last=Rushforth |year=1999 |title=Trees of Britain and Europe |publisher=HarperCollins |isbn=0-00-220013-9}}
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Category:Rhamnaceae
Category:Rhamnaceae genera
Category:Taxa named by Philip Miller

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