Hamelia

Hamelia

Firebush (H. patens)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Eudicots
(unranked):	Asterids
Order:	Gentianales
Family:	Rubiaceae
Subfamily:	Cinchonoideae
Tribe:	Hamelieae^[1]
Genus:	Hamelia Jacq.^[2]
Type species
Hamelia erecta Jacq.^[3]
Species
Several, see text
Synonyms
Duhamelia Pers. Jangaraca Raf. Tangaraca Adans. Tapesia C.F.Gaertn.^[2]

Hamelia is a genus of flowering plants in the coffee family, Rubiaceae. The name honors French botanist Henri-Louis Duhamel du Monceau (1700-1782).^[4]

Selected species

Hamelia axillaris Sw. – Guayabo Negro
Hamelia cuprea Griseb.
Hamelia macrantha Little
Hamelia papillosa Urb. (Jamaica)
Hamelia patens Jacq. – Firebush (American tropics and subtropics)
- Hamelia patens var. glabra Oerst.
- Hamelia patens var. patens^[5]^[6]

^ "Genus Hamelia". Taxonomy. Uniprot. http://www.uniprot.org/taxonomy/43496. Retrieved 2011-07-16.
^ ^a ^b "Genus: Hamelia Jacq.". Germplasm Resources Information Network. United States Department of Agriculture. 2011-03-10. http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/genus.pl?5350. Retrieved 2011-07-16.
^ "Hamelia Jacq.". TROPICOS. Missouri Botanical Database. http://www.tropicos.org/Name/40020586. Retrieved 2009-12-17.
^ Austin, Daniel F. (2004). Florida Ethnobotany. CRC Press. p. 340. ISBN 9780849323324. http://books.google.com/books?id=eS7lX_rC3GEC&.
^ "Subordinate Taxa of Hamelia Jacq.". TROPICOS. Missouri Botanical Database. http://www.tropicos.org/NameSubordinateTaxa.aspx?nameid=40020586. Retrieved 2009-12-17.
^ "GRIN Species Records of Hamelia". Germplasm Resources Information Network. United States Department of Agriculture. http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/splist.pl?5350. Retrieved 2011-07-16.

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