''Sinojackia'' is a genus of five to eight species of

flowering plant Flowering plants are plants that bear flowers and fruits, and form the clade Angiospermae (). The term angiosperm is derived from the Ancient Greek, Greek words (; 'container, vessel') and (; 'seed'), meaning that the seeds are enclosed with ...

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Styracaceae The Styracaceae are a small family of flowering plants in the order Ericales, containing 12 genera and about 160 species of trees and shrubs. The family occurs in warm temperate and subtropical regions of the Northern Hemisphere. The family is ...

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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 ...

China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. With population of China, a population exceeding 1.4 billion, it is the list of countries by population (United Nations), second-most populous country after ...

.Flora of China
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deciduous In the fields of horticulture and botany, the term deciduous () means "falling off at maturity" and "tending to fall off", in reference to trees and shrubs that seasonally shed Leaf, leaves, usually in the autumn; to the shedding of petals, aft ...

shrub A shrub or bush is a small to medium-sized perennial woody plant. Unlike herbaceous plants, shrubs have persistent woody stems above the ground. Shrubs can be either deciduous or evergreen. They are distinguished from trees by their multiple ...

s or small

tree In botany, a tree is a perennial plant with an elongated stem, or trunk, usually supporting branches and leaves. In some usages, the definition of a tree may be narrower, e.g., including only woody plants with secondary growth, only ...

s growing to 4–12 m tall. During a presentation on Chinese plant species at Chiba University's Dept. Of Horticulture on October 27, 2017, botanist Mikinori Ogisu informed the audience that less than 20 ''Sinojackia sarcocarpa'' remain in the wild. He also said he had walked in the mountains with a local and found the species. ;Species * '' Sinojackia dolichocarpa'' C.J.Qi * '' Sinojackia henryi'' (Dummer) Merrill * '' Sinojackia huangmeiensis'' J.W.Ge & X.H.Yao * '' Sinojackia microcarpa'' C.T.Chen & G.Y.Li * '' Sinojackia oblongicarpa'' C.T.Chen & T.R.Cao * '' Sinojackia rehderiana'' Hu * '' Sinojackia sarcocarpa'' L.Q.Lou * '' Sinojackia xylocarpa'' Hu

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Ericales genera Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Ericales-stub