Naucleeae
Encyclopedia
Naucleeae is a tribe
of flowering plant
s in the Rubiaceae
family
and contains about 180 species
in 23 genera
. Species
belonging to Naucleeae occur from Australasia
, tropical Asia
, Madagascar
, tropical Africa
, and to the Neotropics and North America
.
Former genera
Tribe (biology)
In biology, a tribe is a taxonomic rank between family and genus. It is sometimes subdivided into subtribes.Some examples include the tribes: Canini, Acalypheae, Hominini, Bombini, and Antidesmeae.-See also:* Biological classification* Rank...
of flowering plant
Flowering plant
The flowering plants , also known as Angiospermae or Magnoliophyta, are the most diverse group of land plants. Angiosperms are seed-producing plants like the gymnosperms and can be distinguished from the gymnosperms by a series of synapomorphies...
s in the Rubiaceae
Rubiaceae
The Rubiaceae is a family of flowering plants, variously called the coffee family, madder family, or bedstraw family. The group contains many commonly known plants, including the economically important coffee , quinine , and gambier , and the horticulturally valuable madder , west indian jasmine ,...
family
Family (biology)
In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...
and contains about 180 species
Species
In biology, a species is one of the basic units of biological classification and a taxonomic rank. A species is often defined as a group of organisms capable of interbreeding and producing fertile offspring. While in many cases this definition is adequate, more precise or differing measures are...
in 23 genera
Genera
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. Species
Species
In biology, a species is one of the basic units of biological classification and a taxonomic rank. A species is often defined as a group of organisms capable of interbreeding and producing fertile offspring. While in many cases this definition is adequate, more precise or differing measures are...
belonging to Naucleeae occur from Australasia
Australasia
Australasia is a region of Oceania comprising Australia, New Zealand, the island of New Guinea, and neighbouring islands in the Pacific Ocean. The term was coined by Charles de Brosses in Histoire des navigations aux terres australes...
, tropical Asia
Asia
Asia is the world's largest and most populous continent, located primarily in the eastern and northern hemispheres. It covers 8.7% of the Earth's total surface area and with approximately 3.879 billion people, it hosts 60% of the world's current human population...
, Madagascar
Madagascar
The Republic of Madagascar is an island country located in the Indian Ocean off the southeastern coast of Africa...
, tropical Africa
Africa
Africa is the world's second largest and second most populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km² including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area...
, and to the Neotropics and North America
North America
North America is a continent wholly within the Northern Hemisphere and almost wholly within the Western Hemisphere. It is also considered a northern subcontinent of the Americas...
.
Genera
Currently accepted genera- AdinaAdina (genus)Adina is a genus of flowering plants in the Rubiaceae family. They are shrubs or small trees, indigenous to East Asia.- Description :Adina is a genus of shrubs and small trees. The terminal vegetative buds are inconspicuous and loosely surrounded by the stipules. The stipules are bifid for at least...
Salisb.Richard Anthony SalisburyRichard Anthony Salisbury FRS was a British botanist. While he is remembered as a valuable worker in horticultural and botanical sciences, several bitter disputes caused him to be ostracised by his contemporaries.-Life:... - AdinaucleaAdinaucleaAdinauclea is a monospecific genus of flowering plants in the Rubiaceae family. It was described by Colin Ernest Ridsdale in 1978. The genus contains only one species, i.e. Adinauclea fagifolia, which is found in Sulawesi and the Moluccas....
Ridsdale - Breonadia Ridsdale
- BreoniaBreoniaBreonia is a genus of plant of the family Rubiaceae.- Species :Most species are trees, rarely shrubs.*Breonia chinensis - Bur-flower tree, Krathum *Breonia decaryana*Breonia havilandiana*Breonia macrocarpa...
A.Rich.Achille RichardAchille Richard was a French botanist and physician .He was son of a notable botanist, Louis-Claude Marie Richard .Pharmacist in the French fleet and member of several well-known societies of their time....
ex DC. - Burttdavya Hoyle
- CephalanthusCephalanthusCephalanthus is a genus of flowering plants in the madder family, Rubiaceae. Different authorities accept between six and 15 species, which are commonly known as Buttonbushes. Cephalanthus occidentalis is native to the southeastern United States. The others occur in tropical regions of the...
L. - Corynanthe Welw.Friedrich WelwitschFriedrich Martin Josef Welwitsch was an Austrian explorer and botanist who in Angola discovered the plant Welwitschia mirabilis...
- Gyrostipula J.-F.Leroy
- Haldina Ridsdale
- Janotia J.-F.Leroy
- Ludekia Ridsdale
- Metadina Ridsdale
- MitragynaMitragynaMitragyna is a genus of trees in the Rubiaceae family. Members of this genus contain antimalarial and analgesic indole alkaloids. Species of this genus include Mitragyna ciliata, Mitragyna ledermannii, Mitragyna parviflora, Mitragyna speciosa, Mitragyna stipulosa. and Mitragyna inermis...
Korth.Pieter Willem KorthalsPieter Willem Korthals was a Dutch botanist. Korthals was the official botanist with the Dutch East India Service from 1831 to 1836.... - Myrmeconauclea Merr.Elmer Drew MerrillElmer Drew Merrill was an American botanist, specializing in the flora of the Asia-Pacific region.He was born in East Auburn, Maine, and attended the University of Maine where he received a B.S. in 1898...
- NaucleaNaucleaNauclea is a genus of flowering plants in the Rubiaceae family. The species are evergreen trees or shrubs that are native to the paleotropics. The terminal vegetative buds are usually strongly flattened. The generic name is derived from the Ancient Greek words naus, meaning "ship" and kleio,...
L. - Neolamarckia Bosser
- NeonaucleaNeonaucleaNeonauclea is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. It comprises about 65 species. Three of these were described as recently as 2008. Neonauclea is a genus of shrubs and trees They are indigenous to China, India, Southeast Asia, and Indonesia. Neonauclea tsaiana has some limited...
Merr.Elmer Drew MerrillElmer Drew Merrill was an American botanist, specializing in the flora of the Asia-Pacific region.He was born in East Auburn, Maine, and attended the University of Maine where he received a B.S. in 1898... - OchreinaucleaOchreinaucleaOchreinauclea is a genus of plant in family Rubiaceae. It contains the following species :* Ochreinauclea missionis, Ridsd....
Ridsdale & Bakh.f. - PausinystaliaPausinystaliaPausinystalia, formerly known as Corynanthe is a largely African genus of plant in family Rubiaceae. At least one species in the genus contains a powerful alkaloid known as yohimbine used in some herbal remedies, that being Pausinystalia yohimbe...
Pierre ex Beille - Pertusadina Ridsdale
- SarcocephalusSarcocephalusSarcocephalus is a genus of flowering plants in the Rubiaceae family. It holds two species of shrubs or trees native to tropical Africa. Sarcocephalus latifolius has edible fruits known as African peach, Guinea peach, Sierra Leone peach or Country fig....
Afzel.Adam AfzeliusAdam Afzelius was a Swedish botanist and an apostle of Carl Linnaeus. Afzelius was born at Larv in Västergötland in 1750. He was appointed teacher of oriental languages at Uppsala University in 1777, and in 1785 demonstrator of botany...
ex R.Br.Robert Brown (botanist)Robert Brown was a Scottish botanist and palaeobotanist who made important contributions to botany largely through his pioneering use of the microscope... - Sinoadina Ridsdale
- UncariaUncariaUncaria is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. It has about 40 species. Their distribution is pantropical, with most species native to tropical Asia, three from Africa and the Mediterranean and two from the neotropics. They are known colloquially as Gambier, Cat's Claw or Uña de...
Schreb.Johann Christian Daniel von SchreberJohann Christian Daniel von Schreber , often styled I.C.D. von Schreber, was a German naturalist.-Career:He was elected Professor of Materia medica at the University of Erlangen in 1769....
Former genera
- Pseudocinchona A.Chev.Auguste Jean Baptiste ChevalierAuguste Jean Baptiste Chevalier was a French botanist, taxonomist, and explorer of tropical Africa, especially of French colonial empire Africa and Côte d'Ivoire. He also explored and collected plants in South America and tropical Asia...
ex Perrot > Corynanthe