Cassine (plant) explained
Cassine is a genus of trees, of the plant family Celastraceae.
Description
Cassine species grow as shrubs or small trees. The flowers are bisexual. The fruits have a pit (stone).
Distribution and habitat
Cassine species are distributed widely throughout the tropics, mainly in Africa.
Species
The Plant List recognises 68 accepted taxa (of species and infraspecific names):
- Cassine aethiopica
- Cassine albens
- Cassine albivenosa
- Cassine anjouanensis
- Cassine aquifolium
- Cassine australis
- var. angustifolia Cassine balae
- Cassine brachycremastra
- Cassine buchananii
- Cassine bupleuroides
- Cassine burkeana
- Cassine comorensis
- Cassine confertiflora
- Cassine congylos
- Cassine crocea
- Cassine cubensis
- Cassine cunninghamii
- Cassine curtipendula
- Cassine ehrenbergii
- Cassine elliptica
- Cassine eucleiformis
- Cassine glauca
- Cassine grossa
- Cassine gymnosporiodes
- Cassine humbertii
- Cassine kamerunensis
- Cassine kamurensis
- Cassine kedarnathii
- Cassine koordersii
- Cassine lanceolata
- Cassine laneana
- Cassine lippoldii
- Cassine lyciodes
- Cassine macrocarpa
- Cassine maritima
- Cassine matabelica
- Cassine megaphylla
- Cassine melanocarpa
- Cassine micrantha
- Cassine nipensis
- Cassine nitidula
- Cassine obiensis
- Cassine oligantha
- Cassine orientalis
- Cassine paniculata
- Cassine papillosa
- Cassine parvifolia
- Cassine pauciflora
- Cassine peragua
- subsp. affinis subsp. barbata Cassine pilosa
- Cassine pininsularis
- subsp. poyaensis Cassine quadrangulata
- Cassine reticulata
- Cassine schinoides
- Cassine schlechteriana
- Cassine schweinfurthiana
- Cassine tetragona
- Cassine trachyclada
- Cassine transvaalensis
- Cassine trinitensis
- Cassine vacciniodes
- Cassine viburnifolia
- Cassine vitiensis
- Cassine xylocarpa
