''Ceratotheca'' is a genus of
plant
Plants are predominantly photosynthetic eukaryotes of the kingdom Plantae. Historically, the plant kingdom encompassed all living things that were not animals, and included algae and fungi; however, all current definitions of Plantae exclu ...
s in the family
Pedaliaceae
Pedaliaceae, the pedalium family or sesame family, is a flowering plant family classified in the order Lamiales.
The family includes sesame (''Sesamum indicum''), the source of sesame seeds.
It comprises 13 genera and approximately 70 spec ...
(sesame family) comprising about five species native to worldwide tropical areas and to southern Africa.
The genera name is derived from the
Greek
Greek may refer to:
Greece
Anything of, from, or related to Greece, a country in Southern Europe:
*Greeks, an ethnic group.
*Greek language, a branch of the Indo-European language family.
**Proto-Greek language, the assumed last common ancestor ...
words ''keras'' meaning horn and ''theke'' meaning capsule.
[Ib Friis and Olof Ryding (Editors) ]
Species
Species include:
*''
Ceratotheca integribracteata''
Engl.
*''
Ceratotheca reniformis''
Abels (Limpopo foxglove)
*''
Ceratotheca saxicola''
E.A.Bruce
*''
Ceratotheca sesamoides''
Endl. (false sesame)
*''Ceratotheca triloba''
(Bernh.) Hook.f. (South African foxglove)
References
External links
Pedaliaceae
Flora of Africa
Lamiales genera
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