Flacourtiaceae


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Related to Flacourtiaceae: Flacourtia indica, Salicaceae
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Noun1.Flacourtiaceae - chiefly tropical trees and shrubs
dilleniid dicot family - family of more or less advanced dicotyledonous trees and shrubs and herbs
Hypericales, order Hypericales, order Parietales, Parietales - a large order of dicotyledonous plants of subclass Dilleniidae
Flacourtia, genus Flacourtia - often spiny trees or shrubs of tropical Asia and Africa
Dovyalis, genus Dovyalis - small genus of sometimes spiny shrubs or small trees; Africa; India; Sri Lanka
genus Hydnocarpus, genus Taraktagenos, genus Taraktogenos, Hydnocarpus, Taraktagenos, Taraktogenos - medium to large Indonesian and Malaysian trees
genus Idesia - one species
genus Kiggelaria, Kiggelaria - small genus of South African shrubs or small trees
genus Xylosma - genus of tropical American and Asiatic spiny evergreen trees and shrubs
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References in periodicals archive ?
Gynocardia odorata Coffee Plum (Flacourtiaceae) 53.
(2) Fabaceae Tachigali paniculata Fabaceae Tachigali venusta (2) Fabaceae Taralea oppositifolia Fabaccae Vatairea guianensis (3) Fabaceae Zygia cataractae Flacourtiaceae Casearia javitensis Flacourtiaceae Casearia sp.
Habitat: A deciduous tree member of the Flacourtiaceae family, growing up to 30m in rain forests in Indonesia and Malaya.
is a native Southeast Asian tree belonging to Flacourtiaceae. Hydnocarpus oil or chaulmoogra oil is prepared from the seeds of Hydnocarpus spp.
Avaliacao da atividade de Casearia sylvestris Swartz (Flacourtiaceae) sobre os niveis sericos de triglicerideos em ratos.
(42) An elaborate ritual of soaking bundles of raw cotton threads in baths of boiling water filled with palm salt, oil extracted from seeds of the Pangium edule tree [the taxonomy of the tree is uncertain and it may also be classed in the Flacourtiaceae or the Violales], ashes of certain dried leaves, bark and roots, and various gingers to prepare the threads to receive natural dyes after the process of tying patterns and designs onto these threads.