Rubiaceae

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Rubiaceae - widely distributed family of mostly tropical trees and shrubs and herbs; includes coffee and chinchona and gardenia and madder and bedstraws and partridgeberry family Rubiaceae, madder family asterid dicot family - family of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs order Rubiales, Rubiales - an order of dicotyledonous plants of the subclass Asteridae; have opposite leaves and an inferior compound ovary madderwort, rubiaceous plant - any of numerous trees or shrubs or vines of the family Rubiaceae genus Rubia, Rubia - type genus of the Rubiaceae; Old World herbs and subshrubs grown for their medicinal properties and for dye substances extracted from their roots Asperula, genus Asperula - woodruff Calycophyllum, genus Calycophyllum - medium to large tropical American trees having shiny reddish-brown shredding bark Chiococca, genus Chiococca - shrubs of tropical and subtropical New World Coffea, genus Coffea - coffee trees genus Chinchona, genus Cinchona - large genus of trees of Andean region of South America having medicinal bark Galium, genus Galium - annual or perennial herbs: bedstraw; cleavers genus Gardenia - large genus of attractive Old World tropical shrubs and small trees genus Genipa - tropical American evergreen trees or shrubs bearing yellow flowers and succulent edible fruit with a thick rind genus Hamelia - evergreen tropical American shrubs or small trees genus Mitchella, Mitchella - creeping evergreen herbs of North America genus Nauclea, Nauclea - small genus of evergreen tropical shrubs or trees with smooth leathery leaves genus Pinckneya, Pinckneya - small genus of shrubs or small trees of southeastern United States and northern South America genus Psychotria, Psychotria - tropical chiefly South American shrubs and trees genus Sarcocephalus, Sarcocephalus - genus of tropical African trees and shrubs genus Vangueria, Vangueria - tropical African and Asiatic trees and shrubs having one-seeded fruit