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Rubiaceae The Rubiaceae are a family of flowering plants, commonly known as the coffee, madder, or bedstraw family. It consists of terrestrial trees, shrubs, lianas, or herbs that are recognizable by simple, opposite leaves with interpetiolar stipules ...

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. Its representatives are found in central and southern tropical America.

Genera

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Agouticarpa ''Agouticarpa'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae The Rubiaceae are a family of flowering plants, commonly known as the coffee, madder, or bedstraw family. It consists of terrestrial trees, shrubs, lianas, or herbs that ...

'' C.H.Perss. (7 sp) * '' Alibertia'' A.Rich. ex

DC. Augustin Pyramus (or Pyrame) de Candolle (, , ; 4 February 17789 September 1841) was a Swiss botanist. René Louiche Desfontaines launched de Candolle's botanical career by recommending him at a herbarium. Within a couple of years de Candolle ...

(25 sp) * ''

Amaioua ''Amaioua'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. It was first described by Jean Baptiste Aublet in 1775. The genus is native to tropical America from southern Mexico to Brazil, including Cuba and Trinidad. Species * '' Am ...

'' Aubl. (9 sp) * ''

Botryarrhena ''Botryarrhena'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. It was described by Adolpho Ducke in 1932.Adolpho Ducke. 1932. Notizblatt des Botanischen Gartens und Museums zu Berlin-Dahlem 11: 476. It only holds two species, occurri ...

'' Ducke (2 sp) * ''

Cordiera ''Cordiera'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. The genus is found in central and southern tropical America. Species * '' Cordiera concolor'' ( Cham.) Kuntze ** ''Cordiera concolor'' var. ''concolor'' ** ''Cordiera concolo ...

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(11 sp) * ''

Duroia ''Duroia'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. The genus is found from Costa Rica to tropical South America. Ecology A number of ''Duroia'' species, and possibly all, are capable of biochemical interactions inhibiting the ...

'' L.f. (38 sp) * ''

Glossostipula ''Glossostipula'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. The genus is found in Mexico Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered ...

'' Lorence (3 sp) * ''

Kutchubaea ''Kutchubaea'' is a genus of plant in the family Rubiaceae The Rubiaceae are a family of flowering plants, commonly known as the coffee, madder, or bedstraw family. It consists of terrestrial trees, shrubs, lianas, or herbs that are recogniz ...

Fisch. Friedrich Ernst Ludwig Fischer (20 February 1782, Halberstadt – 17 June 1854) was a Russian botanist, born in Germany. He was director of the St Petersburg botanical garden from 1823 to 1850. In 1804 he obtained his medical doctorate from the ...

(13 sp) * '' Melanopsidium'' Colla (1 sp) * ''

Riodocea ''Riodocea'' is a genus of plants in the family Rubiaceae. It includes only one known species, ''Riodocea pulcherrima'', indigenous to the Espírito Santo region of Brazil Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazi ...

'' Delprete (1 sp) * ''

Stachyarrhena ''Stachyarrhena'' is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Rubiaceae The Rubiaceae are a family of flowering plants, commonly known as the coffee, madder, or bedstraw family. It consists of terrestrial trees, shrubs, lianas, or ...

Hook.f. Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker (30 June 1817 – 10 December 1911) was a British botanist and explorer in the 19th century. He was a founder of geographical botany and Charles Darwin's closest friend. For twenty years he served as director of ...

(13 sp) * '' Stenosepala'' C.H.Perss. (1 sp) Synonyms *''Borojoa'' Cuatrec. = '' Alibertia'' *''Coupoui'' Aubl. = ''

'' *''Cupirana'' Miers = ''

'' *''Cupuia'' Raf. = ''

'' *''Ehrenbergia''

Spreng. Kurt Polycarp Joachim Sprengel (3 August 1766 – 15 March 1833) was a German botanist and physician who published an influential multivolume history of medicine, ''Versuch einer pragmatischen Geschichte der Arzneikunde'' (1792–99 in four vo ...

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'' *''Einsteinia'' Ducke = ''

'' *''Garapatica''

H.Karst. Gustav Karl Wilhelm Hermann Karsten (6 November 1817, in Stralsund – 10 July 1908, in Zoppot) was a German botanist and geologist. Born in Stralsund, he followed the example of Alexander von Humboldt and traveled 1844-56 the northern part of So ...

= '' Alibertia'' *''Gardeniola'' Cham. = '' Alibertia'' *''Genipella'' A.Rich. ex

= '' Alibertia'' *''Hexactina''

Willd. Carl Ludwig Willdenow (22 August 1765 – 10 July 1812) was a German botanist, pharmacist, and plant taxonomist. He is considered one of the founders of phytogeography, the study of the geographic distribution of plants. Willdenow was al ...

Schult. Josef (Joseph) August Schultes (15 April 1773 in Vienna – 21 April 1831 in Landshut) was an Austrian botanist and professor from Vienna. Together with Johann Jacob Roemer (1763–1819), he published the 16th edition of Linnaeus' ''Systema ...

Schult.f. Julius Hermann Schultes (4 February 1804 in Vienna – 1 September 1840 in Munich) was an Austrian botanist from Vienna. He co-authored volume 7 of the Roemer & Schultes edition of the ''Systema Vegetabilium'' with his father Josef August S ...

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'' *''Ibetralia'' Bremek. = ''

'' *''Kotchubaea'' Regel ex

Benth. George Bentham (22 September 1800 – 10 September 1884) was an English botanist, described by the weed botanist Duane Isely as "the premier systematic botanist of the nineteenth century". Born into a distinguished family, he initially studie ...

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'' *''Pubeta'' L. = ''

'' *''Scepseothamnus'' Cham. = '' Alibertia'' *''Schachtia''

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'' *''Thieleodoxa'' Cham. = '' Alibertia''

References

Ixoroideae tribes {{Ixoroideae-stub