Clusiaceae

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a widely distributed family of chiefly tropical trees and shrubs and vines that produce oils and resins and some usable timber.

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Clusiaceae - widely distributed family of chiefly tropical trees and shrubs and vines that produce oils and resins and some usable timber family Clusiaceae, family Guttiferae, Guttiferae, St John's wort family 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 Calophyllum, genus Calophyllum - genus of tropical evergreen trees genus Clusia - tropical American aromatic trees or shrubs; often epiphytic; some stranglers Garcinia, genus Garcinia - evergreen trees and shrubs: mangosteens genus Hypericum, Hypericum - large almost cosmopolitan genus of evergreen or deciduous shrubs and herbs with often showy yellow flowers; cosmopolitan except tropical lowlands and Arctic or high altitudes and desert regions genus Mammea, Mammea - American and Asiatic trees having edible one-seeded fruit genus Mesua, Mesua - genus of tropical Asiatic trees having large solitary flowers