Casearia

Casearia

Taxobox
name = "Casearia"



image_width = 200px
image_caption = "Casearia elliptica" parts drawing
regnum = Plantae
divisio = Magnoliophyta
classis = Magnoliopsida
subclassis = Rosidae
unranked_ordo = Eurosids I
ordo = Malpighiales
familia = Salicaceae (disputed)
genus = "Casearia"
genus_authority =
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision =Numerous, see text

"Casearia" is a plant genus in the family Salicaceae. The genus was included in the Flacourtiaceae under the Cronquist system of angiosperm classification, and earlier in the Samydaceae. Recent researchFact|date=December 2007 indicates that the latter group might be reinstated as a valid family.

They are sometimes employed as honey plants, notably "C. decandra" and "C. sylvestris". The latter species is occasionally used as food by the caterpillars of the Two-barred Flasher ("Astraptes fulgerator"). Several species are becoming rare due to deforestation. Some appear close to extinction, and "C. quinduensis" of Colombia and "C. tinifolia" from Mauritius seem to be extinct since some time in the 20th entury and about 1976, respectively.

elected species

* "Casearia albicans"
* "Casearia arborea" (Rich.) Urb.
* "Casearia atlantica"
* "Casearia barteri"
* "Casearia commersiana"
* "Casearia coriifolia"
* "Casearia crassinervis"
* "Casearia dallachii" F.Muell.
* "Casearia decandra" Jacq.
* "Casearia elliptica" Willd. (= "C. tomentosa" Roxb.)
* "Casearia engleri"
* "Casearia flavovirens"
* "Casearia flexula"
* "Casearia fuliginosa" (Blanco) Blanco
* "Casearia gladiiformis" – Sword-leaf
* "Casearia grandiflora" A.St.-Hil.
* "Casearia guianensis" Urb.
* "Casearia kaalaensis"
* "Casearia lasiophylla"
* "Casearia macrocarpa"
* "Casearia mannii"
* "Casearia mauritiana"
* "Casearia megacarpa"
* "Casearia mexiae"
* "Casearia obliqua" Spreng.
* "Casearia rufens" Camb.
* "Casearia pauciflora" Cambess.
* "Casearia quinduensis" (extinct)
* "Casearia sylvestris" SchwartzVerify source|date=December 2007
* "Casearia tinifolia" (extinct)
* "Casearia williamsiana"
* "Casearia wynadensis"


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