Rubiaceae

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Rubiaceae
Lady's Bedstraw (Galium verum)
Lady's Bedstraw (Galium verum)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Subclass: Asteridae
(unranked): Euasterids I
Order: Gentianales
Family: Rubiaceae
Juss.
Type genus
Rubia
L.
Subfamilies

Cinchonoideae
Ixoroideae
Rubioideae
see text

Rubiaceae is a family of flowering plants, variously called the madder family, bedstraw family 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 Rubiaceae.

Subfamilies

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

Some treatments also recognize a fourth subfamily, Antirheoideae.

Genera

For a full list, see List of Rubiaceae genera
Egyptian Starcluster Pentas lanceolata
Egyptian Starcluster Pentas lanceolata
White Luculia gratissima
White Luculia gratissima

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:

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