"rubiaceae"

“IXOROIDEAE”

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(the rubiaceae are a ‘family’ of ‘flowering plants’)

(commonly known as the coffee / madder / “bedstraw family”)

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(it consists of…)

‘terrestrial trees’

‘shrubs’

‘lianas’

‘herbs’

(…that are recognizable by simple opposite leaves with ‘interpetiolar stipules’)

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(the family contains about 13,500 species in 611 genera, which makes it the 4th-largest angiosperm family)

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(‘rubiaceae’ has a cosmopolitan distribution; however, the largest species diversity is concentrated in the (sub)tropics)

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(economic importance includes…)

coffea
(the source of ‘coffee’)

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cinchona
(the source of the anti-malarial alkaloid ‘quinine’)

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*some ‘dye plants’*
(e.g. rubia)

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‘ornamental cultivars’
(EG gardenia / ixora / pentas))

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