Casearia

Casearia is a plant genus in the family Salicaceae. The genus was included in the Flacourtiaceae under the Cronquist system of angiosperm classification, and earlier in the Samydaceae.^{[citation needed]}

Clade:Embryophytes

Clade:Tracheophytes

Clade:Angiosperms

Clade:Eudicots

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Casearia
Casearia tomentosa parts drawing
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Embryophytes
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Rosids
Order:	Malpighiales
Family:	Salicaceae
Subfamily:	Samydoideae
Genus:	Casearia Jacq.[1]
Type species
Casearia nitida[2] (L.) Jacq.
Species
~252; see here.
Synonyms[3]
Synonymy Anavinga Adans. Antigona Vell. Bedousia Dennst. Bigelovia Spreng. Casinga Griseb. Celsa Vell. Chaetocrater Ruiz & Pav. Chetocrater Raf. Clasta Comm. ex Vent. Corizospermum Zipp. Crateria Pers. Euceraea Mart. Geunzia Neck. Gossypiospermum (Griseb.) Urb. Guayabilla Sessé & Moc. Guidonia (DC.) Griseb. Guidonia P.Browne Guidonia Mill. Hecatostemon S.F.Blake Helvingia Adans. Iroucana Aubl. Laetia Loefl. ex L. Langleia Scop. Lindleya Kunth Melistaurum J.R.Forst. & G.Forst. Mesterna Adans. Moelleria Scop. Neoptychocarpus Buchheim Pitumba Aubl. Ptychocarpus Kuhlm. Sadymia Griseb. Samyda Jacq. Synandrina Standl. & L.O.Williams Tardiella Gagnep. Valentinia Sw. Vareca Gaertn. Wolfia Schreb. Zuelania A.Rich.

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They are sometimes employed as honey plants, notably C. decandra and C. sylvestris. The latter species is occasionally used as food by the caterpillars of the two-barred flasher (Astraptes fulgerator). Several species are becoming rare due to deforestation. Some appear close to extinction, and C. quinduensis of Colombia and C. tinifolia from Mauritius seem to be extinct since some time in the 20th century and about 1976, respectively.^{[citation needed]}