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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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