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''Casearia'' is a
plant Plants are the eukaryotes that form the Kingdom (biology), kingdom Plantae; they are predominantly Photosynthesis, photosynthetic. This means that they obtain their energy from sunlight, using chloroplasts derived from endosymbiosis with c ...
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in the
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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 ...
. The genus was included in the
Flacourtiaceae The Flacourtiaceae is a defunct family of flowering plants whose former members have been scattered to various families, mostly to the Achariaceae and Salicaceae. It was so vaguely defined that hardly anything seemed out of place there and it bec ...
under the
Cronquist system The Cronquist system is a list of systems of plant taxonomy, taxonomic classification system of angiosperms, flowering plants. It was developed by Arthur Cronquist in a series of monographs and texts, including ''The Evolution and Classification of ...
of
angiosperm Flowering plants are plants that bear flowers and fruits, and form the clade Angiospermae (). The term angiosperm is derived from the Greek words (; 'container, vessel') and (; 'seed'), meaning that the seeds are enclosed within a fruit ...
classification, and earlier in the
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. A 2002 paper included the Sam ...
. They are sometimes employed as
honey plant Honeybees often collect nectar, pollen, or both from the following species of plants, which are called honey plants, for making honey. This is not an exhaustive list of the flowering plant species Honeybees will visit. Acanthace ...
s, notably '' C. decandra'' and '' C. sylvestris''. The latter species is occasionally used as food by the
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s of the
two-barred flasher ''Telegonus fulgerator'', the two-barred flasher, is a species of spread-wing skipper butterfly in the family Hesperiidae which may constitute a possible cryptic species complex. It ranges all over the Americas, from the southern United States ...
(''Astraptes fulgerator''). Several species are becoming rare due to
deforestation Deforestation or forest clearance is the removal and destruction of a forest or stand of trees from land that is then converted to non-forest use. Deforestation can involve conversion of forest land to farms, ranches, or urban use. Ab ...
. Some appear close to
extinct Extinction is the termination of an organism by the death of its Endling, last member. A taxon may become Functional extinction, functionally extinct before the death of its last member if it loses the capacity to Reproduction, reproduce and ...
ion, and '' C. quinduensis'' of
Colombia Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country primarily located in South America with Insular region of Colombia, insular regions in North America. The Colombian mainland is bordered by the Caribbean Sea to the north, Venezuel ...
and '' C. tinifolia'' from
Mauritius Mauritius, officially the Republic of Mauritius, is an island country in the Indian Ocean, about off the southeastern coast of East Africa, east of Madagascar. It includes the main island (also called Mauritius), as well as Rodrigues, Ag ...
seem to be extinct since some time in the 20th century and about 1976, respectively.


Selected species

*'' Casearia arborea'' *'' Casearia corymbosa'' *'' Casearia crassinervis'' *'' Casearia decandra'' *'' Casearia dodecandra'' *'' Casearia gladiiformis'' *'' Casearia graveolens'' *'' Casearia nitida'' *'' Casearia praecox'' *'' Casearia quinduensis'' *''
Casearia rupestris ''Casearia'' is a plant genus in the family (biology), family Salicaceae. The genus was included in the Flacourtiaceae under the Cronquist system of flowering plant, angiosperm classification, and earlier in the Samydaceae. They are sometimes em ...
'' *'' Casearia seethalakshmiae'' *'' Casearia sylvestris'' *'' Casearia tachirensis'' *''
Casearia tinifolia ''Casearia tinifolia'' was a species of flowering plant in the family Salicaceae. It was endemic to Mauritius Mauritius, officially the Republic of Mauritius, is an island country in the Indian Ocean, about off the southeastern coast of ...
'' *''
Casearia tomentosa ''Casearia tomentosa'', commonly known as the toothed leaf chilla, is a species of flowering plant in the family Salicaceae, native to the Indian Subcontinent and Myanmar. It is one of 1,000 species that can be found in the Salicaceae, Salicaecea ...
'' *'' Casearia wynadensis''


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Taxonomy articles created by Polbot Salicaceae genera Taxa named by Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin {{Salicaceae-stub