Hamelieae is a

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s in the

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and contains about 171

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in 6 genera. Its representatives are found in tropical and subtropical America. The sister tribe Hillieae is sometimes here included.

Genera

Currently accepted names * '' Chione'' DC. (1 sp) * '' Cosmocalyx'' Standl. (1 sp) * '' Deppea'' Schltdl. & Cham. (35 sp) * '' Hamelia'' Jacq. (17 sp) * ''

Hoffmannia ''Hoffmannia'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. They are distributed in Mexico, Central America, and South America. There are about 100 species.Castillo-Campos, G., et al. (2013)''Hoffmannia arqueonervosa'' (Rubiaceae), un ...

'' Sw. (115 sp) * '' Omiltemia'' Standl. (2 sp) Synonyms * ''Campylobotrys'' Lem. = ''

'' * ''Choristes''

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 ...

= '' Deppea'' * ''Crusea'' A.Rich. = '' Chione'' * ''Duhamelia''

Pers. Christiaan Hendrik Persoon (1 February 1761 – 16 November 1836) was a German mycologist who made additions to Linnaeus' mushroom taxonomy. Early life Persoon was born in South Africa at the Cape of Good Hope, the third child of an imm ...

= '' Hamelia'' * ''Euosmia'' Humb. & Bonpl. = ''

'' * ''Evosmia''

Kunth Carl Sigismund Kunth (18 June 1788 – 22 March 1850), also Karl Sigismund Kunth or anglicized as Charles Sigismund Kunth, was a German botanist. He is known for being one of the first to study and categorise plants from the American continents, ...

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'' * ''Higginsia''

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'' * ''Koehneago''

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'' * ''Lonicera'' Adans. = '' Hamelia'' * ''Ohigginsia'' Ruiz & Pav. = ''

'' * ''Ophryococcus'' Oerst. = ''

'' * ''Oregandra'' Standl. = '' Chione'' * ''Sacconia'' Endl. = '' Chione'' * ''Schenckia''

K.Schum. Karl Moritz Schumann (17 June 1851 – 22 March 1904) was a German botanist. Schumann was born in Görlitz. He was curator of the Botanisches Museum in Berlin-Dahlem from 1880 until 1894. He also served as the first chairman of the ''Deut ...

= '' Deppea'' * ''Tangaraca'' Adans. = '' Hamelia'' * ''Tepesia'' C.F.Gaertn. = '' Hamelia'' * ''Xerococcus'' Oerst. = ''

References

Cinchonoideae tribes {{Cinchonoideae-stub