(botany) The single family of the plant order Rubiales.
Rubiaceae
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The noun has one meaning:
Meaning #1:
widely distributed family of mostly tropical trees and shrubs and herbs; includes coffee and chinchona and gardenia and madder and bedstraws and partridgeberry
Synonyms: family Rubiaceae, madder family
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Eudicots |
| (unranked): | Asterids |
| Order: | Gentianales |
| Family: | Rubiaceae Juss. |
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| Rubia L. |
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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 650 genera and more than 13,000 species in Rubiaceae.
Subfamilies
The genera are distributed into tribes, and these placed in one of three recognized subfamilies:
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Some treatments also recognize a fourth subfamily, Antirheoideae.
Genera
- For a full list, see List of Rubiaceae genera
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The following genera are listed by Watson and Dallwitz (Delta):
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Rubiaceae sensu stricto:
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In Watson and Dallwitz's Henriqueziaceae:
In Watson and Dallwitz's Naucleaceae:
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