Casasia
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| Casasia | |
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| Seven-year Apple, Casasia clusiifolia | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Division: | Magnoliophyta |
| Class: | Eudicotyledoneae |
| Subclass: | Asteridae |
| (unranked): | Euasterids I |
| Order: | Gentianales |
| Family: | Rubiaceae |
| Subfamily: | Ixoroideae |
| Tribe: | Gardenieae |
| Genus: | Casasia A.Rich. |
| Species | |
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10, see text |
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| Synonyms | |
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Buttneria P.Browne[1] |
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Casasia is a flowering plant genus in the family Rubiaceae. These shrubs or small trees occur on the Caribbean islands and in one case (Seven-year Apple, C. clusiifolia) in Florida.
Some of the ten accepted species were formerly placed elsewhere, e.g. in the related genip-tree genus (Genipa), in Gardenia or in Randia.[1]
[edit] List of species
The following species are placed here:[1]
- Casasia acunae M.Fernández Zeq. & A.Borhidi
- Casasia calophylla A.Rich. in R.de la Sagra
- Casasia clusiifolia (Jacq.) Urb. – Seven-year Apple
- Casasia clusiifolia var. clusiifolia
- Casasia clusiifolia var. hirsuta Borhidi
- Casasia domingensis (DC.) Urb.
- Casasia ekmanii Urb.
- Casasia haitensis Urb. & Ekman
- Casasia jacquinioides (Griseb.) Standl. (= C. parviflora)
- Casasia longipes
- Casasia nigrescens (Griseb.) C.Wright ex Rob.
- Casasia nigrescens ssp. moaensis Borhidi & O.Muñiz
- Casasia nigrescens ssp. nigrescens
- Casasia samuelssonii Urb. & Ekman
C. chiapensis is now Randia matudae.
[edit] Footnotes
[edit] References
- Govaerts, R.; Andersson, L.; Robbrecht, E.; Bridson, D.; Davis, A.; Schanzer, I. & Sonke, B. (2005): World Checklist of Rubiaceae – Genipa. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 2008-DEC-27.
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