Euonymus venosus Hemsl.

This is a distinctive species in the genus and can be recognized even without flowers or fruit. The leaf blade is typically narrowly oblong and has curved or bending veins and veinlets. The record from Yunnan has not been confirmed; that from Henan results from local work.

Deciduous shrubs to small trees, 2-6 m tall; branches and twigs sturdy, gray or brown, terete, glabrous. Petiole 3-5 mm; leaf blade thinly leathery or leathery, oblong-elliptic, 6-12 × 1.5-2 cm, base and apex acuminate or acute, margin finely crenulate to nearly entire; lateral veins and veinlets curved or bent, even in tortuous form, prominent on both surfaces. Peduncle 2-4 cm, with few flowers, rarely 7. Flowers 4-merous, 6-8 mm in diam.; petals light yellow, nearly rotund. Capsule globose or subglobose, slightly grooved, 8-10 cm in diam., pink-brown to yellow-brown, 4-lobed. Seeds yellow-brown; aril orange-red. Fl. May-Jul, fr. Aug-Sep.

Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Shaanxi, Sichuan, ?Yunnan.

● Forests, rock slopes, scrub; 700-2500 m.

Euonymus venosus là một loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Dây gối. Loài này được Hemsl. mô tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1893.

曲脉卫矛（学名：Euonymus venosus）是卫矛科卫矛属的植物，是中国的特有植物。分布于中国大陆的云南、四川、陕西、湖北等地，生长于海拔800米至2,600米的地区，多生长在山间林下以及岩石山坡丛林中，目前尚未由人工引种栽培。