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. Retrieved 2011-07-16.
1 2 "Genus: Hamelia Jacq.". Germplasm Resources Information Network. United States Department of Agriculture. 2011-03-10. Retrieved 2011-07-16.
↑ "Hamelia Jacq.". TROPICOS. Missouri Botanical Database. Retrieved 2009-12-17.
↑ Austin, Daniel F. (2004). Florida Ethnobotany. CRC Press. p. 340. ISBN 978-0-8493-2332-4.
↑ "Subordinate Taxa of Hamelia Jacq.". TROPICOS. Missouri Botanical Database. Retrieved 2009-12-17.
↑ "GRIN Species Records of Hamelia". Germplasm Resources Information Network. United States Department of Agriculture. Retrieved 2011-07-16.

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