Crusea

{{short description|Genus of plants}}

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| image = Crusea longiflora.jpg

| image_caption = Crusea longiflora

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| taxon = Crusea

| authority = Schltdl. & Cham.

| type_species = Crusea rubra (syn. of Crusea hispida)

| type_species_authority = (Jacq.) Schltdl. & Cham.

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Crusea (common name saucer flower)[http://plants.usda.gov/plant-profile?symbol=CRDI12 USDA plants profile, Crusea diversifolia] is a genus of angiosperms (flowering plants) in the family Rubiaceae.[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/96173#page/168/mode/1up Diederich Franz Leonhard von Schlechtendal & Ludolf Karl Adelbert von Chamisso. 1830. Linnaea 5(1): 165] The genus is found in the south-western United States (Arizona and New Mexico), Mexico, and Central America. A few species are naturalized in Cuba and Puerto Rico.Davidse, G., M. Sousa Sánchez, S. Knapp & F. Chiang Cabrera. 2012. Rubiaceae a Verbenaceae. 4(2): i–xvi, 1–533. In G. Davidse, M. Sousa Sánchez, S. Knapp & F. Chiang Cabrera (eds.) Flora Mesoamericana. Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St. Louis.

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