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Casasia is a flowering plant

Flowering plant

The flowering plants , also known as Angiospermae or Magnoliophyta, are the most diverse group of land plants. Angiosperms are seed-producing plants like the gymnosperms and can be distinguished from the gymnosperms by a series of synapomorphies...

genus

Genus

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in the family

Family (biology)

In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...

Rubiaceae

The Rubiaceae is a family of flowering plants, variously called the coffee family, madder family, or bedstraw family. The group contains many commonly known plants, including the economically important coffee , quinine , and gambier , and the horticulturally valuable madder , west indian jasmine ,...

. These shrub

Shrub

A shrub or bush is distinguished from a tree by its multiple stems and shorter height, usually under 5–6 m tall. A large number of plants may become either shrubs or trees, depending on the growing conditions they experience...

s or small tree

Tree

A tree is a perennial woody plant. It is most often defined as a woody plant that has many secondary branches supported clear of the ground on a single main stem or trunk with clear apical dominance. A minimum height specification at maturity is cited by some authors, varying from 3 m to...

s occur on the Caribbean

Caribbean

The Caribbean is a crescent-shaped group of islands more than 2,000 miles long separating the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea, to the west and south, from the Atlantic Ocean, to the east and north...

islands and in one case (Seven-year Apple, C. clusiifolia) in Florida

Florida

Florida is a state in the southeastern United States, located on the nation's Atlantic and Gulf coasts. It is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the north by Alabama and Georgia and to the east by the Atlantic Ocean. With a population of 18,801,310 as measured by the 2010 census, it...

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Some of the ten accepted species were formerly placed elsewhere, e.g. in the related genip-tree genus (Genipa), in Gardenia
Gardenia
Gardenia is a genus of 142 species of flowering plants in the coffee family, Rubiaceae, native to the tropical and subtropical regions of Africa, southern Asia, Australasia and Oceania....

or in Randia
Randia (plant)
Randia, commonly known as indigoberry, is a mostly neotropical genus of shrubs or small trees in the Rubiaceae. The International Plant Names Index lists a total of 738 names for the genus, synonyms included. Several Australian species have been reassigned to the genus Atractocarpus. These include...

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List of species

The following species are placed here:

Casasia acunae M.Fernández Zeq. & A.Borhidi
Casasia calophylla A.Rich. in R.de la Sagra
Casasia clusiifolia (Jacq.) Urb. – Seven-year Apple
- Casasia clusiifolia var. clusiifolia
- Casasia clusiifolia var. hirsuta Borhidi
Casasia domingensis (DC.) Urb.
Casasia ekmanii Urb.
Casasia haitensis Urb. & Ekman
Casasia jacquinioides (Griseb.) Standl. (= C. parviflora)
Casasia longipes
Casasia longipes
Casasia longipes is a species of plant in the Rubiaceae family. It is endemic to Jamaica.-References:* World Conservation Monitoring Centre 1998. . Downloaded on 21 August 2007....
Casasia nigrescens (Griseb.) C.Wright ex Rob.
- Casasia nigrescens ssp. moaensis Borhidi & O.Muñiz
- Casasia nigrescens ssp. nigrescens
Casasia samuelssonii Urb. & Ekman

C. chiapensis is now Randia matudae.

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