Cassine (plant)

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