''Scolopia'' is an
Old World genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nom ...
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
Salicaceae
The Salicaceae is the willow family of flowering plants. The traditional family (Salicaceae ''sensu stricto'') included the willows, poplar, aspen, and cottonwoods. Genetic studies summarized by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (APG) have greatly ...
.
Species include:
* ''
Scolopia braunii''
( Klotzsch) & Sleumer - an
Australian rainforest tree
*''
Scolopia buxifolia''
Gagnep.
*''
Scolopia chinensis''
(Lour.) Clos
*''
Scolopia crassipes''
Clos.
*''
Scolopia crenata''
(Wight & Arn.) Clos
*''
Scolopia erythrocarpa''
H. Perrier
*''
Scolopia lucida''
Wall. ex Kurz
*''
Scolopia mundii
''Scolopia mundii'', the mountain saffron, red pear or klipdoring, is a South African tree in the family Salicaceae.
It has dark shiny foliage and bright yellow/orange berries. It is a very adaptable tree and occurs sporadically throughout Sout ...
''
(Eckl. & Zeyh.) Warb. - a
South Africa
South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the Southern Africa, southernmost country in Africa. It is bounded to the south by of coastline that stretch along the Atlantic Ocean, South Atlantic and Indian Oceans; to the ...
n
Afromontane forest tree
*''
Scolopia oldhamii''
Hance
*''
Scolopia oreophila''
Killick
*''
Scolopia pusilla''
(Gaertn.) Willd.
*''
Scolopia rhinanthera''
*''
Scolopia saeva''
(Hance) Hance
*''
Scolopia schreberi''
J.F.Gmel.
*''
Scolopia steenisiana''
Sleumer
*''
Scolopia zeyheri''
(Nees) Szyszyl.
The
caterpillars of the
rustic (''Cupha erymanthis''), a
brush-footed butterfly
The Nymphalidae are the largest family of butterflies, with more than 6,000 species distributed throughout most of the world. Belonging to the superfamily Papilionoidea, they are usually medium-sized to large butterflies. Most species have a red ...
, utilize species of this genus as food plants.
Salicaceae genera
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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