Euonymus balansae Sprague

After publication of the FOC treatment, it was noted that Euonymus balansae should be called instead E. mengtzeanus (Loesener) Sprague, Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew 1908: 35. 1908, with E. balansae Sprague in synonymy.

Evergreen shrubs, scandent, ca. 3 m tall; branches and twigs 4-angled, brown or gray-brown when dry. Petiole 5-8 mm; leaf blade papery, ovate to ovate-elliptic, 10-15 × 4-8 cm, base cuneate or attenuate, margin crenulate, apex acute or acuminate; lateral veins 6-9 pairs, netting before reaching margin, impressed adaxially and prominent abaxially. Peduncle 4-6 cm, 2 or 3 × dichotomously branched, several flowered; pedicel glabrous, 4-5 mm. Flowers 4-merous, 9-10 mm in diam.; sepals suborbicular; petals yellow-green, ovate, base cuneate. Ovary densely prickly; stigma absent. Capsule red when fresh, black when dry, nearly globose, 1-1.3 cm in diam., 4-lobed, densely prickly, prickles ca. 3 mm. Aril bright red. Fl. May-Aug, fr. Jul-Nov.

Yunnan [Vietnam].

Forests, scrub; 1000-3000 m.

Euonymus hystrix W. W. Smith; E. mengtzeanus (Loesener) Sprague; E. theifolius Wallich ex M. A. Lawson var. meng tzeanus Loesener.

Euonymus balansae là một loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Dây gối. Loài này được Sprague mô tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1908.