Casearia
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Casearia is a plant
Plant
Plants are living organisms belonging to the kingdom Plantae. Precise definitions of the kingdom vary, but as the term is used here, plants include familiar organisms such as trees, flowers, herbs, bushes, grasses, vines, ferns, mosses, and green algae. The group is also called green plants or...

 genus
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...

 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...

 Salicaceae
Salicaceae
Salicaceae are a family of flowering plants. Recent genetic studies summarized by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group has greatly expanded the circumscription of the family to contain 55 genera....

. The genus was included in the Flacourtiaceae
Flacourtiaceae
Flacourtiaceae is a defunct family of flowering plants whose former members have been scattered to various other families, mostly to Achariaceae, Samydaceae, and Salicaceae. It was so vaguely defined that hardly anything seemed out of place there and it became a dumping ground for odd and anomalous...

 under the Cronquist system
Cronquist system
The Cronquist system is a taxonomic classification system of flowering plants. It was developed by Arthur Cronquist in his texts An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants and The Evolution and Classification of Flowering Plants .Cronquist's system places flowering plants into two...

 of angiosperm
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...

 classification, and earlier in the Samydaceae
Samydaceae
Samydaceae is a family of tropical and subtropical woody plants, its best known genus being Casearia. It has always been of uncertain placement, in the past usually being submerged in the family Flacourtiaceae....

. Recent research 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 caterpillar
Caterpillar
Caterpillars are the larval form of members of the order Lepidoptera . They are mostly herbivorous in food habit, although some species are insectivorous. Caterpillars are voracious feeders and many of them are considered to be pests in agriculture...

s of the Two-barred Flasher (Astraptes fulgerator). Several species are becoming rare due to deforestation
Deforestation
Deforestation is the removal of a forest or stand of trees where the land is thereafter converted to a nonforest use. Examples of deforestation include conversion of forestland to farms, ranches, or urban use....

. Some appear close to extinction, and C. quinduensis
Casearia quinduensis
Casearia quinduensis was a species of plant in the Salicaceae family. It was endemic to Colombia.-Sources:* Calderon, E. 1998. . Downloaded on 21 August 2007....

of Colombia
Colombia
Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia , is a unitary constitutional republic comprising thirty-two departments. The country is located in northwestern South America, bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the...

 and C. tinifolia
Casearia tinifolia
Casearia tinifolia was a species of plant in the Salicaceae family. It was endemic to Mauritius.-Sources:* Strahm, W. 1998. . Downloaded on 21 August 2007....

from Mauritius
Mauritius
Mauritius , officially the Republic of Mauritius is an island nation off the southeast coast of the African continent in the southwest Indian Ocean, about east of Madagascar...

 seem to be extinct since some time in the 20th century and about 1976, respectively.

Selected species

  • Casearia aculeata Jacq.
  • Casearia albicans
    Casearia albicans
    Casearia albicans is a species of plant in the Salicaceae family. It is endemic to Malaysia. It is threatened by habitat loss.-Sources:* Chua, L.S.L. 1998. . Downloaded on 21 August 2007....

  • Casearia arborea (Rich.
    Louis Claude Richard
    Louis Claude Marie Richard was a French botanist.Richard was born at Versailles. Between 1781 and 1789 he collected botanical specimens in Central America and the West Indies...

    ) Urb.
  • Casearia atlantica
    Casearia atlantica
    Casearia atlantica is a species of plant in the Salicaceae family. It is endemic to Panama. It is threatened by habitat loss.-Sources:* Mitré, M. 1998. . Downloaded on 21 August 2007....

  • Casearia barteri
    Casearia barteri
    Casearia barteri is a species of plant in the Salicaceae family. It is found in Angola, Cameroon, Central African Republic, the Republic of the Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Liberia, Nigeria, São Tomé and Príncipe, Sierra Leone, and...

  • Casearia commersiana
  • Casearia coriifolia
    Casearia coriifolia
    Casearia coriifolia is a species of plant in the Salicaceae family. It is endemic to New Caledonia.-References:* Jaffré, T. et al. 1998. . Downloaded on 21 August 2007....

  • Casearia corymbosa Kunth
  • Casearia crassinervis
    Casearia crassinervis
    Casearia crassinervis is a species of plant in the Salicaceae family. It is endemic to Cuba.-References:* Areces-Mallea, A.E. 1998. . Downloaded on 21 August 2007....

  • Casearia dallachii F.Muell.
  • Casearia decandra Jacq.
    Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin
    Nikolaus Joseph Freiherr von Jacquin or Baron Nikolaus von Jacquin. was a scientist who studied medicine, chemistry and botany....

  • Casearia elliptica Willd. (= C. tomentosa Roxb.)
  • Casearia engleri
    Casearia engleri
    Casearia engleri is a species of plant in the Salicaceae family. It is endemic to Tanzania.-References:* Lovett, J. & Clarke, G.P. 1998. . Downloaded on 21 August 2007....

  • Casearia flavovirens
    Casearia flavovirens
    Casearia flavovirens is a species of plant in the Salicaceae family. It is endemic to Indonesia.It is an Vulnerable species threatened by habitat loss.-References:* World Conservation Monitoring Centre 1998. . Downloaded on 21 August 2007....

  • Casearia flexula
    Casearia flexula
    Casearia flexula is a species of plant in the Salicaceae family. It is endemic to Malaysia. It is threatened by habitat loss.-Sources:* Chua, L.S.L. 1998. . Downloaded on 21 August 2007....

  • Casearia fuliginosa (Blanco) Blanco
  • Casearia gladiiformis
    Casearia gladiiformis
    Casearia gladiiformis, the Sword-leaf, is a small tree that occurs mostly in dry coastal forests of south-eastern Africa. It is distributed from the Eastern Cape to Malawi. It bears small inconspicuous flowers in spring. The seeds are released when the woody seed capsule splits open after drying out....

    – Sword-leaf
  • Casearia grandiflora A.St.-Hil.
  • Casearia graveolens Dalzell
  • Casearia guianensis Urb.
  • Casearia hirsuta Sw.
  • Casearia kaalaensis
    Casearia kaalaensis
    Casearia kaalaensis is a species of plant in the Salicaceae family. It is endemic to New Caledonia.-References:* Jaffré, T. et al. 1998. . Downloaded on 21 August 2007....

  • Casearia lasiophylla
    Casearia lasiophylla
    Casearia lasiophylla is a species of plant in the Salicaceae family. It is endemic to Brazil.-Sources:* Torres, R.B. 1998. . Downloaded on 21 August 2007....

    Eichler
  • Casearia macrocarpa
    Casearia macrocarpa
    Casearia macrocarpa is a species of plant in the Salicaceae family. It is endemic to Malaysia. It is threatened by habitat loss.-References:* Chua, L.S.L. 1998. . Downloaded on 21 August 2007....

  • Casearia mannii
    Casearia mannii
    Casearia mannii is a species of plant in the Salicaceae family. It is endemic to São Tomé and Príncipe.-References:* World Conservation Monitoring Centre 1998. . Downloaded on 21 August 2007....

  • Casearia mauritiana
    Casearia mauritiana
    Casearia mauritiana is a species of plant in the Salicaceae family. It is endemic to Mauritius.-Sources:* Strahm, W. 1998. . Downloaded on 21 August 2007....

  • Casearia megacarpa
    Casearia megacarpa
    Casearia megacarpa is a species of plant in the Salicaceae family. It is endemic to Colombia.-References:* Calderon, E. 1998. . Downloaded on 21 August 2007....

  • Casearia mexiae
    Casearia mexiae
    Casearia mexiae is a species of plant in the Salicaceae family. It is endemic to Ecuador. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montanes.-Sources:* Neill, D. & Pitman, N. 2004. . Downloaded on 21 August 2007....

  • Casearia obliqua Spreng.
  • Casearia rufens Camb.
  • Casearia pauciflora Cambess.
  • Casearia quinduensis
    Casearia quinduensis
    Casearia quinduensis was a species of plant in the Salicaceae family. It was endemic to Colombia.-Sources:* Calderon, E. 1998. . Downloaded on 21 August 2007....

    (extinct)
  • Casearia sylvestris Sw.
  • Casearia tinifolia
    Casearia tinifolia
    Casearia tinifolia was a species of plant in the Salicaceae family. It was endemic to Mauritius.-Sources:* Strahm, W. 1998. . Downloaded on 21 August 2007....

    Vent.
    Étienne Pierre Ventenat
    Étienne Pierre Ventenat was a French botanist born in Limoges. He was the brother of naturalist Louis Ventenat ....

    (extinct)
  • Casearia williamsiana
    Casearia williamsiana
    Casearia williamsiana is a species of plant in the Salicaceae family. It is endemic to Honduras.-Sources:* Nelson, C. 1998. . Downloaded on 21 August 2007....

  • Casearia wynadensis
    Casearia wynadensis
    Casearia wynadensis is a species of plant in the Salicaceae family. It is endemic to India.-References:* World Conservation Monitoring Centre 1998. . Downloaded on 21 August 2007....


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