Abelia occurs as genus of about 15-30 species and many hybrids in the honeysuckle family Caprifoliaceae, in the part of that personal split dispatch by occasionally authors in the segregate personal Linnaeaceae. A Angiosperm Phylogeny Group considers Linnaeaceae an optional synonym for Caprifoliaceae s.l.

It is shrubs from 1-6 m tall, native to eastern Asia (Japan west to the Himalaya) and southern North America (Mexico); the coinage from either warmly climates come evergreen, and colder climate mintage deciduous. Abelia isThe leaves are opposite or around whorls of deuce-ace, ovoid, glossy, dark green, Single.Five-8 cm yearn, turning purplish-bronze to red within fall in the deciduous mintage. A flowers appear inside the upper leaf axils & stem terminates, One-8 together in the short cyme; they are cernuous, white to pink, bell-shaped by having the Five-lobed corolla, One-5 cm hanker, & normally scented. Flowering continues above an extended & continuous late spring to fall period of time.

Species
Abelia adenotricha - (China) Abelia aitchinsonii Abelia angustifolia - (China) Abelia anhwensis - (China) Abelia biflora - (China) Abelia buddleioides - (China) Abelia cavaleriei - (China) Abelia chinensis - (China) Abelia chowii - (China) Abelia coriacea - (Mexico) Abelia corymbosa Abelia curviflora - (Japan) Abelia engleriana - (Sichuan, China) Abelia fargesii - (Japan) Abelia floribunda - Mexican Abelia (Mexico) Abelia gracilenta - (China) Abelia graebneriana - (China) Abelia hersii - (China) Abelia integrifolia - (Japan) Abelia ionandra - (Taiwan) Abelia ionostachya - (Japan) Abelia longituba - (China) Abelia mairei - (China) Abelia mexicana - (Mexico) Abelia mosanensis - (Korea) Abelia myrtilloides - (China) Abelia occidentalis - (Mexico) Abelia parvifolia - (China) Abelia schischkinii - (China) Abelia schumannii - (China) Abelia serrata - (Japan) Abelia spathulata - (Japan) Abelia speciosa - (Mexico) Abelia tomentosa - (Japan) Abelia triflora - (Himalaya) Abelia tyaihyoni - (Korea) Abelia umbellata - (Sichuan, China) Abelia uniflora - (China) Abelia verticillata - (China) Abelia zanderi - (Sichuan, China)

;Hybrids Abelia x grandiflora Hort. ex. Bailey

Cultivation and uses
Abelias come popular garden shrubs. A virtually all widely grown is the crossed Abelia x grandiflora (Glossy Abelia; hybrid Abelia chinensis ten Abelia uniflora). This occurs as fat, scattering, multi-stemmed bush using gracefully bowed branches to One-One.Ogdoad m tall, sustaining ovoid, glossy, dark green semi-half-evergreen leaves to Two-6 cm hanker, & clusters of white-tinged-pink, bell-shaped flowers to Deuce cm yearn.