''Hartogiella'' is a genus of flowering plants within the family

Celastraceae The Celastraceae (staff-vine or bittersweet) are a family of 97 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 contains one species, ''Hartogiella schinoides'' (known as the spoonwood or smalblad), a medium-sized tree from the southern

Western Cape The Western Cape is a province of South Africa, situated on the south-western coast of the country. It is the fourth largest of the nine provinces with an area of , and the third most populous, with an estimated 7 million inhabitants in 2020 ...

province of South Africa. It has opposing leaves that show elastic threads when broken, and red fleshy fruit that becomes dry later in the year.

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Southern Cape Trees & Shrubs
{{Taxonbar, from=Q5224991 Trees of South Africa Trees of Mediterranean climate Monotypic rosid genera Celastrales genera Celastraceae