Rubiaceae
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 Lady's Bedstraw (Galium verum)
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Rubiaceae is a family of flowering plants, variously called the madder, bedstraw, 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 600 genera and more than 10,000 species in Rubiaceae.
[edit] Subfamilies
The genera are distributed into tribes, and these placed in one of three recognized subfamilies:
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[edit] Genera
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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