Crateva
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Crateva is a genus of flowering plant
s in the caper
family, Capparaceae
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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...
s in the caper
Caper
Capparis spinosa, the caper bush, is a perennial winter-deciduous species that bears rounded, fleshy leaves and large white to pinkish-white flowers. A caper is also the pickled bud of this plant...
family, Capparaceae
Capparaceae
Capparaceae , commonly known as the Caper family, is a family of plants in order Brassicales. As currently circumscribed, it contains 33 genera and about 700 species...
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Selected species
- Crateva adansonii DC.
- Crateva magna (Lour.) DC.
- Crateva religiosaCrateva religiosaThe flowering tree Crateva religiosa is called the sacred garlic pear and temple plant, and many other names in a variety of dialects, including abiyuch, barna, varuna, and bidasi. The tree is sometimes called the spider tree because the showy flowers bear long, spidery stamens...
G. Forst. - Crateva speciosa Volkens
- Crateva tapia L.
Formerly placed here
- Aegiceras corniculatumAegiceras corniculatumAegiceras corniculatum, commonly known as Black Mangrove or River Mangrove, is a species of shrub or tree mangrove in the Myrsine family with a distribution in coastal and estuarine areas ranging from India through South East Asia to southern China, New Guinea and Australia.-Description:Aegiceras...
(L.) Blanco (as C. corniculatum (L.) L.) - Aegle marmelos (L.) Corrêa (as C. marmelos L.)