Rubiaceae

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Rubiaceae
Lady's Bedstraw (Galium verum)
Lady's Bedstraw (Galium verum)
Plant Info
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Gentianales
Family: Rubiaceae
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Genera
See text

For a full list, see: List of Rubiaceae genera

Egyptian Starcluster Pentas lanceolata
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White Luculia gratissima

Rubiaceae is a family of flowering plants, variously called the madder, bedstraw, or coffee family. Other common plants included here are gardenia, cinchona, sweet woodruff, partridgeberry, gambier, ixora, and noni. A number of traditionally accepted families (Dialypetalanthaceae, Henriqueziaceae, Naucleaceae, and Theligonaceae) are now incorporated within the Rubiaceae following genetic research by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group. As now circumscribed, there are about 600 genera and more than 10,000 species in the Rubiaceae.

Subfamilies

The genera are distributed into tribes, and these placed in one of three recognized subfamilies:

  • Rubioideae
    • Anthospermeae
    • Argostemmateae
    • Coussareeae
    • Craterispermeae
    • Danaideae
    • Gaertnereae
    • Lasiantheae
    • Morindeae
    • Ophiorrhizeae
    • Paederieae
    • Perameae
    • Psychotrieae
    • Rubieae
    • Sabiceeae
    • Schradereae
    • Spermacoceae
    • Theligoneae
    • Urophylleae
    • Virectarieae
  • Cinchonoideae
    • Calycophylleae
    • Catesbaeeae
    • Naucleeae
    • Chiococceae
    • Cinchoneae
    • Condamineeae
    • Coptosapelteae
    • Guettardeae
    • Hamelieae
    • Hillieae
    • Isertieae
    • Mussaendeae
    • Rondeletieae
    • Simireae
    • Exostema group
  • Ixoroideae
    • Alberteae
    • Coffeeae
    • Cremasporeae
    • Gardenieae
    • Hippotideae
    • Ixoreae
    • Octotropideae
    • Pavetteae
    • Retiniphylleae
    • Sipaneeae
    • Vanguerieae

Genera

The following genera are listed by Watson and Dallwitz (Delta):

Rubiaceae sensu stricto:

In Watson and Dallwitz's Henriqueziaceae:

In Watson and Dallwitz's Naucleaceae:

References and external links

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