rubiaceae
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Widely distributed family of mostly tropical trees and shrubs and herbs;
Includes coffee and chinchona and gardenia and madder and bedstraws and partridgeberry (synset 112680770)is a type of: asterid dicot family - family of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubsmember holonym:- 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
belongs to: order rubiales, rubiales - an order of dicotyledonous plants of the subclass Asteridae; have opposite leaves and an inferior compound ovarysame as: family rubiaceae, madder family
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