Euonymus lucidus D. Don

The flowers and fruit of this species are usually 5-merous; however, in alpine conditions, it sometimes includes 4-merous anatomy. This combination of characters is unique in the section.

Evergreen shrubs to small trees, 4-12 m tall; branches terete, twigs striate or sometimes 4-angled, green or brown when dry. Petiole sturdy, short, less than ca. 1 cm; leaf blade thickly leathery or leathery, elliptic or oblong-elliptic, 10-11.5 × 3(-4.5) cm, base cuneate or attenuate, adaxially ± farinose, margin long and sharply ciliate, apex acute or acuminate; lateral veins invisible, or sometimes in ca. 10 pairs, slightly curving forward, netting and disappearing before reaching margin. Cymes many, axillary or clustered; peduncle up to 4 cm, usually 1-3 × dichotomously branched with many flowers; pedicel short, less than ca. 5 mm. Flowers 5-merous, sometimes combined with 4-merous, 7-8 mm in diam.; sepals suborbicular; petals white. Capsule reddish brown when fresh, dark brown or gray when dry, 1.5-1.6 cm in diam., 4- or 5-lobed, lobes wide and thin, wing up to 7 × 5 mm. Seeds typically 1, dark brown; aril red. Fl. Apr-May, fr. Aug-Nov.

Xizang [Bhutan, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan].

Forests, woodlands; 1600-3200 m.

Euonymus pendulus Wallich ex Roxburgh.

Euonymus pendulus is a species of Euonymus native to the Himalaya region, from Pakistan east to northern Assam.

It is an evergreen shrub or small tree, which grows to be 6–10 m tall with a dense, spreading crown and corky grey bark. The leaves are glossy green and often bronze-red when newly opened. They are lanceolate to narrow ovate, 5–12 cm long and 2–3 cm broad, with a serrated margin. The flowers are small, with four white petals approximately 4 mm long. The fruit produced by the plant are three or four-lobed berry-like capsules which are 15 mm broad. Each contains three or four seeds surrounded by fleshy orange-red arils.