Posoquerieae is a

tribe The term tribe is used in many different contexts to refer to a category of human social group. The predominant worldwide usage of the term in English language, English is in the discipline of anthropology. This definition is contested, in p ...

flowering plant Flowering plants are plants that bear flowers and fruits, and form the clade Angiospermae (), commonly called angiosperms. The term "angiosperm" is derived from the Greek words ('container, vessel') and ('seed'), and refers to those plants th ...

s in the

family Family (from la, familia) is a Social group, group of people related either by consanguinity (by recognized birth) or Affinity (law), affinity (by marriage or other relationship). The purpose of the family is to maintain the well-being of its ...

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 ...

and contains 23

species In biology, a species is the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank of an organism, as well as a unit of biodiversity. A species is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate s ...

in 2

genera Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nomenclat ...

. Its representatives are found from

Mexico Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the north by the United States; to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; to the southeast by Guatema ...

to tropical

South America South America is a continent entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere at the northern tip of the continent. It can also be described as the southe ...

Genera

Currently accepted names * '' Molopanthera'' Turcz. (1 sp) * ''

Posoqueria ''Posoqueria'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. The genus is found Mexico to tropical America. Species *'' Posoqueria acutifolia'' Mart. *'' Posoqueria bahiensis'' Macias & L.S.Kinosh. *'' Posoqueria calantha'' Barb.Rodr. ...

'' Aubl. (22 sp) Synonyms * ''Cyrtanthus'' Schreb. = ''

'' * ''Kyrtanthus'' J.F.Gmel. = ''

'' * ''Martha'' F.J.Müll. = ''

'' * ''Posoria'' Raf. = ''

'' * ''Ramspekia''

Scop. Giovanni Antonio Scopoli (sometimes Latinized as Johannes Antonius Scopolius) (3 June 1723 – 8 May 1788) was an Italian physician and naturalist. His biographer Otto Guglia named him the "first anational European" and the " Linnaeus of the A ...

= ''

'' * ''Solena'' Lour. = ''

'' * ''Stannia''

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 ...

= ''

'' * ''Willdenovia'' J.F.Gmel. = ''

References

Ixoroideae tribes Posoquerieae {{Ixoroideae-stub