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|accepted_name=Paxistima
|accepted_authority=Rafinesque
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sylva Tell.,
|place=42. 1838
|year=1838
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Celastraceae;Paxistima
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Celastraceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Paxistima]]</div></div>
|etymology=Greek pachos, thick, and stigma, alluding to slightly enlarged stigma
|volume=Volume 12
|mention_page=page 112, 119
|treatment_page=page 129
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Shrubs.</b> Branchlets 4-angled, with corky ridges. <b>Leaves</b> persistent, opposite; stipules present; petiole present or absent; blade margins finely toothed; venation pinnate. <b>Inflorescences</b> axillary, cymes or flowers solitary. <b>Flowers</b> bisexual, radially symmetric; perianth and androecium perigynous; hypanthium free from ovary; sepals 4, distinct; petals 4, reddish brown to yellowish green; nectary intrastaminal, lining hypanthium, fleshy; stamens 4, adnate to nectary margin; staminodes 0; pistil 2-carpellate; ovary superior, immersed in and adnate to nectary, 2-locular, placentation axile; style 1; stigmas 2; ovules 2 per locule. <b>Fruits</b> capsules, 2-locular, ellipsoid or obovoid, apex not beaked. <b>Seeds</b> 1 per locule, ellipsoid or obovoid, not winged; aril yellow or white, surrounding base and 1 side of seed, lacerate or fringed. <b>x</b> = 16.</span><!--

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|distribution=North America;n Mexico.
|discussion=<p>Species 2 (2 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p>Pachystima and Pachistima are orthographic variants used frequently in the flora area.</p>
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|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=navaro1990a
|text=Navaro, A. M. and W. H. Blackwell. 1990. A revision of Paxistima (Celastraceae). Sida 14: 231–249.
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|id=wheeler1943a
|text=Wheeler, L. C. 1943. History and orthography of the celastraceous genus "Pachystima" Rafinesque. Amer. Midl. Naturalist 29: 792–795.
}}
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==Key==
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{| class="wikitable fna-keytable"
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Shrubs 1–4 dm; leaves 5–20 × 2–4 mm, usually linear to narrowly elliptic, rarely oblanceolate; capsules 3–4 mm.
|[[Paxistima canbyi|Paxistima canbyi]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Shrubs 5–10 dm; leaves 8–34 × 3–12 mm, ovate, elliptic, or oblanceolate; capsules 4–7 mm.
|[[Paxistima myrsinites|Paxistima myrsinites]]
|}
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name=Paxistima
|author=Jinshuang Ma
|authority=Rafinesque
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Celastraceae
|distribution=North America;n Mexico.
|reference=navaro1990a;wheeler1943a
|publication title=Sylva Tell.,
|publication year=1838
|special status=
|source xml=https://bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation/src/2e0870ddd59836b60bcf96646a41e87ea5a5943a/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V12/V12_890.xml
|genus=Paxistima
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