''Peripterygia marginata'' is a species of shrubs in the family

Celastraceae The Celastraceae (staff-vine or bittersweet) are a family of 98 genera and 1,350 species of herbs, vines, shrubs and small trees, belonging to the order Celastrales. The great majority of the genera are tropical, with only ''Celastrus'' (the staf ...

. It is

endemic Endemism is the state of a species being found only in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also foun ...

New Caledonia New Caledonia ( ; ) is a group of islands in the southwest Pacific Ocean, southwest of Vanuatu and east of Australia. Located from Metropolitan France, it forms a Overseas France#Sui generis collectivity, ''sui generis'' collectivity of t ...

and the only species of the genus ''Peripterygia''. Its closest relatives are '' Crossopetalum'' and ''

Siphonodon ''Siphonodon'' is a small genus of flowering plants in the family Celastraceae. Species The Catalogue of Life lists six species: * ''Siphonodon annamensis'' * ''Siphonodon australis'' * ''Siphonodon celastrineus'' * ''Siphonodon membranaceus'' ...

''.Simmons, Mark, Christine D. Bacon, J. J. Cappa, and M. J. McKenna. (20102) Phylogeny of Celastraceae Subfamilies Cassinoideae and Tripterygioideae Inferred from Morphological Characters and Nuclear and Plastid Loci.” Systematic Botany 37(2): 456–67. doi:10.1600/036364412X635502.

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Endemic flora of New Caledonia Monotypic Celastrales genera Celastraceae Taxa named by Henri Ernest Baillon Taxa named by Ludwig Eduard Theodor Loesener {{Celastraceae-stub