Biology:Knoxieae

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Short description: Tribe of plants

Knoxieae
Pentas flowers.jpg
Pentas sp.
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Gentianales
Family: Rubiaceae
Subfamily: Rubioideae
Tribe: Knoxieae
Hook.f.
Type genus
Knoxia
Synonyms
  • Knoxiinae K.Schum.
  • Knoxioideae Luerss.

Knoxieae is a tribe of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae and contains about 131 species in 16 genera. Its representatives are found in Tropical and Southern Africa, the islands in the Western Indian Ocean, the Arabian Peninsula, Tropical and Subtropical Asia, and Northern Australia.[1]

Genera

Currently accepted names[1][2][3][4]


Synonyms


References

  1. 1.0 1.1 "World Checklist of Rubiaceae". http://apps.kew.org/wcsp. Retrieved 20 April 2016. 
  2. Robbrecht E, Manen J-F (2006). "The major evolutionary lineages of the coffee family (Rubiaceae, angiosperms). Combined analysis (nDNA and cpDNA) to infer the position of Coptosapelta and Luculia, and supertree construction based on rbcL, rps16, trnL-trnF and atpB-rbcL data. A new classification in two subfamilies, Cinchonoideae and Rubioideae". Systematic Geography of Plants 76: 85–146. 
  3. Bremer B (2009). "A review of molecular phylogenetic studies of Rubiaceae". Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 96: 4–26. doi:10.3417/2006197. 
  4. Bremer B, Eriksson E (2009). "Time tree of Rubiaceae: phylogeny and dating the family, subfamilies, and tribes". International Journal of Plant Sciences 170 (6): 766–793. doi:10.1086/599077. 

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