''Scolopia'' is an
Old World
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genus
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of
plant
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s in the family
Salicaceae
The Salicaceae are the willow family of flowering plants. The traditional family (Salicaceae ''sensu stricto'') includes the willows, poplars. Genetic studies summarized by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (APG) have greatly expanded the circumsc ...
.
Species include:
* ''
Scolopia braunii''
( Klotzsch) & Sleumer - an
Australia
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n rainforest tree
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Scolopia buxifolia''
Gagnep.
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Scolopia chinensis''
(Lour.) Clos
*''
Scolopia crassipes''
Clos.
*''
Scolopia crenata
''Scolopia crenata'', known commonly as potato plum of Mysore, is a subcanopy tree found in tropical evergreen to semi-evergreen forests of Indo-Malaysia and the Western Ghats, up to 1800 m.
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(Wight & Arn.) Clos
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Scolopia erythrocarpa''
H. Perrier
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Scolopia lucida''
Wall. ex Kurz
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Scolopia mundii''
(Eckl. & Zeyh.) Warb. - a
South Africa
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n
Afromontane forest tree
*''
Scolopia oldhamii''
Hance
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Scolopia oreophila''
Killick
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Scolopia pusilla''
(Gaertn.) Willd.
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Scolopia rhinanthera''
*''
Scolopia saeva''
(Hance) Hance
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Scolopia schreberi''
J.F.Gmel.
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Scolopia steenisiana''
Sleumer
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Scolopia zeyheri''
(Nees) Szyszyl.
The
caterpillar
Caterpillars ( ) are the larval stage of members of the order Lepidoptera (the insect order comprising butterflies and moths).
As with most common names, the application of the word is arbitrary, since the larvae of sawflies (suborder ...
s of the
rustic (''Cupha erymanthis''), a
brush-footed butterfly, utilize species of this genus as food plants.
Salicaceae genera
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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