flowering plant
Flowering plants are plants that bear flowers and fruits, and form the clade Angiospermae (), commonly called angiosperms. They include all forbs (flowering plants without a woody stem), grasses and grass-like plants, a vast majority of ...
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family
Family (from la, familia) is a group of people related either by consanguinity (by recognized birth) or affinity (by marriage or other relationship). The purpose of the family is to maintain the well-being of its members and of society. Idea ...
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 about 7600
species
In biology, a species is the basic unit of Taxonomy (biology), 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 ...
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tribes
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 is in the discipline of anthropology. This definition is contested, in part due to confl ...
Cham.
Adelbert von Chamisso (; 30 January 178121 August 1838) was a German poet and botanist, author of ''Peter Schlemihl'', a famous story about a man who sold his shadow. He was commonly known in French as Adelbert de Chamisso (or Chamissot) de Bon ...
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Schltdl.
Diederich Franz Leonhard von Schlechtendal (27 November 1794, Xanten – 12 October 1866, Halle) was a German botanist.
He studied in Berlin, in 1819 becoming curator of the Royal Herbarium. He was a professor of botany and director of the ...
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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 ...
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Argostemmateae
Argostemmateae is a tribe of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae and contains about 215 species in 4 genera. Its representatives are found in tropical Africa, and tropical and subtropical Asia.
Genera
Currently accepted names
* '' Argost ...
Bremek.
Cornelis Eliza Bertus Bremekamp (7 February 1888, in Dordrecht – 21 December 1984) was a Dutch botanist.
He received his education at the University of Utrecht, and performed as a botanical researcher in Indonesia and South Africa. In South ...
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Verdc.
Bernard Verdcourt (20 January 1925 – 25 October 2011) was a biologist and taxonomist, most widely known as a botanist and latterly an honorary research fellow at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew in London. Prior to coming to Kew in 1964, he ...
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Clarkelleae
''Clarkella'' is a monotypic genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. The genus contains only one species, viz. ''Clarkella nana'', which is native to India, China
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Colletoecemateae
''Colletoecema'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. It is the only genus in the tribe Colletoecemateae. The 3 species are found from west-central tropical Africa to Angola.
Species
*'' Colletoecema dewevrei'' ( De Wild. ...
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B.Bremer
Birgitta Bremer (born 17 January 1950), Swedish people, Swedish botanist and academic, is professor at Stockholm University, and director of the Bergius Botanic Garden.
Career
Professor Bremer obtained her doctorate in botany in 1980 from Stockhol ...
Craterispermeae
''Craterispermum'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. It contains 16 species that occur in tropical Africa and Seychelles. It is the only genus in the tribe Craterispermeae, of which the divergence time is estimated at 34.8 ...
Verdc.
Bernard Verdcourt (20 January 1925 – 25 October 2011) was a biologist and taxonomist, most widely known as a botanist and latterly an honorary research fellow at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew in London. Prior to coming to Kew in 1964, he ...
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Cyanoneuroneae
''Cyanoneuron'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. The genus is found on Borneo and Sulawesi.
Species
* '' Cyanoneuron cyaneum'' (Hallier f.) Tange - Borneo, Sulawesi
* '' Cyanoneuron depauperatum'' ( Merr.) Tange - Borneo ...
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B.Bremer
Birgitta Bremer (born 17 January 1950), Swedish people, Swedish botanist and academic, is professor at Stockholm University, and director of the Bergius Botanic Garden.
Career
Professor Bremer obtained her doctorate in botany in 1980 from Stockhol ...
B.Bremer
Birgitta Bremer (born 17 January 1950), Swedish people, Swedish botanist and academic, is professor at Stockholm University, and director of the Bergius Botanic Garden.
Career
Professor Bremer obtained her doctorate in botany in 1980 from Stockhol ...
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Dunnieae
''Dunnia'' is a monotypic genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. The genus contains only one species, viz. ''Dunnia sinensis'', which is endemic to Guangdong
Guangdong (, ), alternatively romanized as Canton or Kwangtung, is a ...
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B.Bremer
Birgitta Bremer (born 17 January 1950), Swedish people, Swedish botanist and academic, is professor at Stockholm University, and director of the Bergius Botanic Garden.
Career
Professor Bremer obtained her doctorate in botany in 1980 from Stockhol ...
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Gaertnereae
Gaertnereae is a tribe of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae and contains about 95 species in 2 genera. '' Gaertnera'' is found from tropical Africa to tropical Asia, while '' Pagamea'' is found in southern tropical America.
Genera
Curr ...
Bremek.
Cornelis Eliza Bertus Bremekamp (7 February 1888, in Dordrecht – 21 December 1984) was a Dutch botanist.
He received his education at the University of Utrecht, and performed as a botanical researcher in Indonesia and South Africa. In South ...
ex S.P.Darwin
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Knoxieae
Knoxieae is a tribe of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae and contains about 131 species in 16 genera. Its representatives are found in Tropical and Southern Africa, the islands in the Western Indian Ocean, the Arabian Peninsula, Tropical a ...
Lasiantheae
Lasiantheae is a tribe of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae and contains 239 species in 3 genera. Its representatives are found in Central America, the Caribbean, tropical Africa, and tropical and subtropical Asia.
Genera
Currently acc ...
B.Bremer
Birgitta Bremer (born 17 January 1950), Swedish people, Swedish botanist and academic, is professor at Stockholm University, and director of the Bergius Botanic Garden.
Career
Professor Bremer obtained her doctorate in botany in 1980 from Stockhol ...
B.Bremer
Birgitta Bremer (born 17 January 1950), Swedish people, Swedish botanist and academic, is professor at Stockholm University, and director of the Bergius Botanic Garden.
Career
Professor Bremer obtained her doctorate in botany in 1980 from Stockhol ...
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Morindeae
Morindeae is a tribe of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. The tribe contains about 165 species in 5 genera, found mainly in the tropics and subtropics.
Genera
Currently accepted names
* '' Appunia'' Hook.f. (14 sp)
* '' Coelospermum' ...
Miq.
Friedrich Anton Wilhelm Miquel (24 October 1811 – 23 January 1871) was a Dutch botanist, whose main focus of study was on the flora of the Dutch East Indies.
Early life
Miquel was born in Neuenhaus and studied medicine at the University of Gro ...
Bremek.
Cornelis Eliza Bertus Bremekamp (7 February 1888, in Dordrecht – 21 December 1984) was a Dutch botanist.
He received his education at the University of Utrecht, and performed as a botanical researcher in Indonesia and South Africa. In South ...
ex
Verdc.
Bernard Verdcourt (20 January 1925 – 25 October 2011) was a biologist and taxonomist, most widely known as a botanist and latterly an honorary research fellow at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew in London. Prior to coming to Kew in 1964, he ...
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Paederieae
Paederieae is a tribe of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae and contains 81 species in 4 genera. Its representatives are found in the tropics and subtropics.
Genera
Currently accepted names
* '' Leptodermis'' Wall. (46 sp)
* '' Paederi ...
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 ...
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Palicoureeae
Palicoureeae is a Tribe (biology), tribe of flowering plants in the Family (biology), family Rubiaceae and contains about 817 species in 11 genus, genera. Its representatives are found in the tropics and subtropics.
Genera
Currently accepted nam ...
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Perameae
Perama ( el, Πέραμα) is a coastal town and a suburb of Piraeus and belongs to the Piraeus regional unit. It lies on the southwest edge of the Aegaleo mountains, on the Saronic Gulf coast. It is 8 km northwest of Piraeus, and 14 ...
Bremek.
Cornelis Eliza Bertus Bremekamp (7 February 1888, in Dordrecht – 21 December 1984) was a Dutch botanist.
He received his education at the University of Utrecht, and performed as a botanical researcher in Indonesia and South Africa. In South ...
ex S.P.Darwin
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Prismatomerideae
Prismatomerideae is a tribe of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae and contains 24 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 ...
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Psychotrieae
Psychotrieae is a tribe of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae and contains about 2114 species in 17 genera. Its representatives are found in the tropics and subtropics.
Genera
Currently accepted names
* '' Amaracarpus'' (30 sp.) - Seyche ...
Cham.
Adelbert von Chamisso (; 30 January 178121 August 1838) was a German poet and botanist, author of ''Peter Schlemihl'', a famous story about a man who sold his shadow. He was commonly known in French as Adelbert de Chamisso (or Chamissot) de Bon ...
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Schltdl.
Diederich Franz Leonhard von Schlechtendal (27 November 1794, Xanten – 12 October 1866, Halle) was a German botanist.
He studied in Berlin, in 1819 becoming curator of the Royal Herbarium. He was a professor of botany and director of the ...
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Putorieae
''Plocama'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. It was described by William Aiton in 1789. It is distributed from the Canary Islands to northwestern India.
The genus was expanded in 2007 when several other Rubiaceae genera w ...
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Rubieae
Rubieae is a tribe of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae and contains 970 species in 15 genera. The genus ''Galium'' is responsible for more than two thirds of the species in the tribe. The second largest genus is ''Asperula'', which contai ...
Baill.
Henri Ernest Baillon was a French botanist and physician. He was born in Calais on 30 November 1827 and died in Paris on 19 July 1895.
Baillon spent his professional life as a professor of natural history, and he published numerous works on b ...
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Schizocoleeae
''Schizocolea'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. It is the only genus in the tribe Schizocoleeae. The genus is found in Guinea, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Gabon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Angola.
Spec ...
Rydin &
B.Bremer
Birgitta Bremer (born 17 January 1950), Swedish people, Swedish botanist and academic, is professor at Stockholm University, and director of the Bergius Botanic Garden.
Career
Professor Bremer obtained her doctorate in botany in 1980 from Stockhol ...
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Schradereae
''Schradera'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. It was described by Martin Vahl in 1797. The genus has a wide distribution area and is found from tropical America to the Malay Archipelago. It is the only genus in the tribe ...
Bremek.
Cornelis Eliza Bertus Bremekamp (7 February 1888, in Dordrecht – 21 December 1984) was a Dutch botanist.
He received his education at the University of Utrecht, and performed as a botanical researcher in Indonesia and South Africa. In South ...
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Spermacoceae
Spermacoceae is a tribe of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae and contains about 1346 species in 57 genera. Its representatives are found in the tropics and subtropics.
Genera
Currently accepted names
* ''Agathisanthemum'' (5 sp.)
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Cham.
Adelbert von Chamisso (; 30 January 178121 August 1838) was a German poet and botanist, author of ''Peter Schlemihl'', a famous story about a man who sold his shadow. He was commonly known in French as Adelbert de Chamisso (or Chamissot) de Bon ...
&
Schltdl.
Diederich Franz Leonhard von Schlechtendal (27 November 1794, Xanten – 12 October 1866, Halle) was a German botanist.
He studied in Berlin, in 1819 becoming curator of the Royal Herbarium. He was a professor of botany and director of the ...
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 ...
Bremek.
Cornelis Eliza Bertus Bremekamp (7 February 1888, in Dordrecht – 21 December 1984) was a Dutch botanist.
He received his education at the University of Utrecht, and performed as a botanical researcher in Indonesia and South Africa. In South ...
ex
Verdc.
Bernard Verdcourt (20 January 1925 – 25 October 2011) was a biologist and taxonomist, most widely known as a botanist and latterly an honorary research fellow at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew in London. Prior to coming to Kew in 1964, he ...