Asperula

Asperula
Asperula arvensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Asterids
Order: Gentianales
Family: Rubiaceae
Subfamily: Rubioideae
Tribe: Rubieae
Genus: Asperula
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Asperula (As-pé-ru-la) is a genus of flowering plants in the Rubiaceae family. It contains about 200 species and has a wide distribution area from Europe, northern Africa, temperate and subtropicale Asia to Australasia.[1]

Species

The following list is incomplete.

  • Asperula ambleia Airy Shaw - Stiff Woodruff
  • Asperula arvensis L. - Blue Woodruff
  • Asperula asthenes Airy Shaw & Turrill
  • Asperula charophyton Airy Shaw & Turrill - Strapleaf Woodruff
  • Asperula conferta Hook.f. - Common Woodruff
  • Asperula cunninghamii Airy Shaw & Turrill - Twining Woodruff
  • Asperula cynanchica L. - Squinancywort
  • Asperula euryphylla Airy Shaw & Turrill
  • Asperula gemella Airy Shaw & Turrill - Twin-leaved bedstraw
  • Asperula geminifolia F.Muell.
  • Asperula gunnii Hook.f. - Mountain Woodruff
  • Asperula minima Hook.f.
  • Asperula odorata L. - Sweet Woodruff
  • Asperula orientalis Boiss. & Hohen. - Blue Woodruff
  • Asperula pusilla Hook.f. - Alpine Woodruff
  • Asperula scoparia Hook.f. - Prickly Woodruff
  • Asperula subsimplex Hook.f.
  • Asperula subulifolia Airy Shaw & Turrill
  • Asperula syrticola (Miq.) Airy Shaw & Turrill
  • Asperula taurina L. - Pink Woodruff
  • Asperula tinctoria L. - Dyer's Woodruff

References

  1. ^ "World Checklist of Rubiaceae". http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/rubiaceae/. Retrieved August 2011. 

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