''Scolopia'' is an
Old World
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genus
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of
plant
Plants are predominantly Photosynthesis, photosynthetic eukaryotes of the Kingdom (biology), kingdom Plantae. Historically, the plant kingdom encompassed all living things that were not animals, and included algae and fungi; however, all curr ...
s in the family
Salicaceae
The Salicaceae is the willow family of flowering plants. The traditional family (Salicaceae ''sensu stricto'') included the willows, poplar, aspen, and cottonwoods. Genetic studies summarized by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (APG) have greatly ...
.
Species include:
* ''
Scolopia braunii''
(Klotzsch
Johann Friedrich Klotzsch (9 June 1805 – 5 November 1860) was a German pharmacist and botanist.
His principal work was in the field of mycology, with the study and description of many species of mushroom.
Klotzsch was born in Wittenberg. Origin ...
) & Sleumer
Hermann Otto Sleumer (February 21, 1906 in Saarbrücken – October 1, 1993 in Oegstgeest) was a Dutch botanist of German birth. The plant genera '' Sleumerodendron'' Virot (Proteaceae
The Proteaceae form a family of flowering plants predomi ...
- an
Australian rainforest tree
*''
Scolopia buxifolia''
Gagnep.
*''
Scolopia chinensis''
(Lour.) Clos
*''
Scolopia crassipes''
Clos.
*''
Scolopia crenata''
(Wight & Arn.) Clos
*''
Scolopia erythrocarpa''
H. Perrier
*''
Scolopia lucida''
Wall. ex Kurz
*''
Scolopia mundii''
(Eckl. & Zeyh.) Warb. - a
South Africa
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n
Afromontane forest tree
*''
Scolopia oldhamii''
Hance
*''
Scolopia oreophila''
Killick
*''
Scolopia pusilla''
(Gaertn.) Willd.
*''
Scolopia rhinanthera''
*''
Scolopia saeva''
(Hance) Hance
*''
Scolopia schreberi''
J.F.Gmel.
*''
Scolopia steenisiana''
Sleumer
*''
Scolopia zeyheri''
(Nees) Szyszyl.
The
caterpillar
Caterpillars ( ) are the larva, larval stage of members of the order Lepidoptera (the insect order comprising butterfly, butterflies and moths).
As with most common names, the application of the word is arbitrary, since the larvae of sawfly ...
s of the
rustic
Rustic may refer to:
*Rural area
*Pastoral
Architecture
* Rustication (architecture), a masonry technique mainly employed in Renaissance architecture
* Rustic architecture, an informal architectural style in the United States and Canada with sever ...
(''Cupha erymanthis''), a
brush-footed butterfly
The Nymphalidae are the largest family of butterflies, with more than 6,000 species distributed throughout most of the world. Belonging to the superfamily Papilionoidea, they are usually medium-sized to large butterflies. Most species have a red ...
, utilize species of this genus as food plants.
Salicaceae genera
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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