{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Casearia tomentosa Bra31.png | image_caption = ''Casearia tomentosa'' parts drawing | taxon = Casearia | authority = Jacq.<ref name="GRIN">{{cite web |url=http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/genus.pl?2141 |title=Genus: ''Casearia'' Jacq. |work=Germplasm Resources Information Network |publisher=United States Department of Agriculture |date=2006-03-31 |access-date=2010-11-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121009072042/http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/genus.pl?2141 |archive-date=2012-10-09 |url-status=dead }}</ref> | type_species = ''Casearia nitida''<ref>{{Cite web |title=Tropicos |url=https://www.tropicos.org/name/40002213 |access-date=2025-04-21 |website=www.tropicos.org}}</ref> | type_species_authority = (L.) Jacq. | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = ~252; see here. |synonyms={{collapsible list|bullets=true |title=Synonymy |''Anavinga'' {{small|Adans.}} |''Antigona'' {{small|Vell.}} |''Bedousia'' {{small|Dennst.}} |''Bigelovia'' {{small|Spreng.}} |''Casinga'' {{small|Griseb.}} |''Celsa'' {{small|Vell.}} |''Chaetocrater'' {{small|Ruiz & Pav.}} |''Chetocrater'' {{small|Raf.}} |''Clasta'' {{small|Comm. ex Vent.}} |''Corizospermum'' {{small|Zipp.}} |''Crateria'' {{small|Pers.}} |''Euceraea'' {{small|Mart.}} |''Geunzia'' {{small|Neck.}} |''Gossypiospermum'' <small>(Griseb.) Urb.</small> |''Guayabilla'' {{small|Sessé & Moc.}} |''Guidonia'' {{small|(DC.) Griseb.}} |''Guidonia'' {{small|P.Browne}} |''Guidonia'' {{small|Mill.}} |''Hecatostemon'' {{small|S.F.Blake}} |''Helvingia'' {{small|Adans.}} |''Iroucana'' {{small|Aubl.}} |''Laetia'' {{small|Loefl. ex L.}} |''Langleia'' {{small|Scop.}} |''Lindleya'' {{small|Kunth}} |''Melistaurum'' {{small|J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.}} |''Mesterna'' {{small|Adans.}} |''Moelleria'' {{small|Scop.}} |''Neoptychocarpus'' {{small|Buchheim}} |''Pitumba'' {{small|Aubl.}} |''Ptychocarpus'' {{small|Kuhlm.}} |''Sadymia'' {{small|Griseb.}} |''Samyda'' {{small|Jacq.}} |''Synandrina'' <small>Standl. & L.O.Williams</small> |''Tardiella'' {{small|Gagnep.}} |''Valentinia'' {{small|Sw.}} |''Vareca'' {{small|Gaertn.}} |''Wolfia'' {{small|Schreb.}} |''Zuelania'' {{small|A.Rich.}} }} |synonyms_ref = <ref name = powo>{{cite web |title=''Casearia'' Jacq. |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:327084-2 |website=Plants of the World Online |publisher=Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew |access-date=7 April 2026}}</ref> }}
'''''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|date=April 2025}}
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|date=April 2025}}
==Selected species== {{Main|List of Casearia species}} {{div col}} *''Casearia albicans'' {{small|Wall. ex C.B.Clarke}} *''Casearia arborea'' {{small|(Rich.) Urb.}} *''Casearia atlantica'' {{small|Sleumer}} *''Casearia barteri'' {{small|Mast.}} *''Casearia bartlettii'' {{small|Lundell}} *''Casearia coriifolia'' {{small|Lescot & Sleumer}} *''Casearia corymbosa'' {{small|Kunth}} *''Casearia crassinervis'' {{small|Urb.}} *''Casearia decandra'' {{small|Jacq.}} *''Casearia dodecandra'' {{small|(Jacq.) T.Samar. & M.H.Alford}} *''Casearia engleri'' {{small|Gilg}} *''Casearia flavovirens'' {{small|Blume}} *''Casearia flexula'' {{small|Ridl.}} *''Casearia gladiiformis'' {{small|Mast.}} *''Casearia graveolens'' {{small|Dalzell}} *''Casearia lasiophylla'' {{small|Eichler}} *''Casearia macrocarpa'' {{small|C.B.Clarke}} *''Casearia mannii'' {{small|Mast.}} *''Casearia mauritiana'' {{small|Bosser}} *''Casearia megacarpa'' {{small|Cuatrec.}} *''Casearia mexiae'' {{small|Sandwith}} *''Casearia nitida'' {{small|(L.) Jacq.}} *''Casearia praecox'' {{small|Griseb.}} *''Casearia quinduensis'' {{small|Tul.}} *''Casearia rupestris'' {{small|Eichler}} *''Casearia seethalakshmiae'' {{small|V.Suresh & Ambika}} *''Casearia sylvestris'' {{small|Sw.}} *''Casearia tachirensis'' {{small|Steyerm.}} *''Casearia tinifolia'' {{small|Vent.}} *''Casearia tomentosa'' {{small|Roxb.}} *''Casearia williamsiana'' {{small|Sleumer}} *''Casearia wynadensis'' {{small|Bedd.}} *''Casearia yucatanensis'' {{small|(Standl.) T.Samar. & M.H.Alford}}
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==References== {{Reflist|2}}
==External links== {{Commons category-inline|Casearia|''Casearia''}} {{Wikispecies-inline|Casearia|''Casearia''}}
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Category:Casearia Category:Salicaceae genera Category:Pantropical flora Category:Taxonomy articles created by Polbot Category:Taxa named by Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin
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