Ceratotheca

{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}}

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| image_caption = Ceratotheca triloba

| taxon = Ceratotheca

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Ceratotheca is a genus of plants in the family Pedaliaceae (sesame family) comprising about five species native to worldwide tropical areas and to southern Africa.{{cite web |url=http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/genus.php?genus_id=1316 |title=Flora of Zimbabwe |author1=Mark Hyde |author2=Bart Wursten |author3=Petra Ballings |author4=Meg Coates Palgrave |accessdate=17 January 2015}}

The genus name is derived from the Greek words keras meaning horn and theke meaning capsule.Ib Friis and Olof Ryding (Editors) {{google books|ZCPQFdfZwTAC|Biodiversity Research in the Horn of Africa Region: Proceedings of the Third International Symposium on the Flora of Ethiopia and Eritrea at the Carlsberg Academy, Copenhagen, August 25-27, 1999 (2001)|page=65}}