Octotropideae

Octotropideae
Kraussia floribunda
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Asterids
Order:	Gentianales
Family:	Rubiaceae
Subfamily:	Ixoroideae
Tribe:	Octotropideae Bedd.
Type genus
Octotropis Bedd.

Octotropideae is a tribe of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae and contains about 103 species in 18 genera. Its representatives are found in the paleotropics. ^[1] The genera previously placed in the tribe Hypobathreae are now placed in Octotropideae. ^[2]

Genera

Currently accepted names ^{[1] [3] [4] [5]}

• Canephora Juss. (5 sp) - Madagascar
• Didymosalpinx Keay (5 sp) - Tropical Africa
• Feretia Delile (4 sp) - Tropical and Southern Africa
• Fernelia Comm. ex Lam. (4 sp) - Mascarene Islands
• Flagenium Baill. (6 sp) - Madagascar
• Galiniera Delile (2 sp) - Tropical Africa, Madagascar
• Hypobathrum Blume (31 sp) - Tropical Asia
• Jovetia Guédès (1 sp) - Madagascar
• Kraussia Harv. (4 sp) - Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique, South Africa, Socotra
• Lamprothamnus Hiern (1 sp) - Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania
• Lemyrea (A.Chev.) A.Chev. & Beille (4 sp) - Madagascar
• Nargedia Bedd. (1 sp) - Sri Lanka
• Octotropis Bedd. (1 sp) - India
• Paragenipa Baill. (1 sp) - Seychelles
• Polysphaeria Hook.f. (22 sp) - Tropical Africa, Madagascar
• Pouchetia A.Rich. ex DC. (4 sp) - Western Tropical Africa to Sudan and Northern Angola
• Ramosmania Tirveng. & Verdc. (2 sp) - Rodrigues
• Villaria Rolfe (5 sp) - Philippines

Possibly placed here: ^[6]

• Xantonneopsis Pit. (1 sp.) – Vietnam

Synonyms

• Exosolenia Baill. ex Drake = Lemyrea
• Higginsia Blume = Hypobathrum
• Petunga DC. = Hypobathrum
• PhylantheraNoronha = Hypobathrum
• Platymerium Bartl. ex DC. = Hypobathrum
• Ptychostigma Hochst. = Galiniera
• Rhabdostigma Hook.f. = Kraussia
• Spicillaria A.Rich. = Hypobathrum

References

1. "World Checklist of Rubiaceae".
2. Mouly, Arnaud; Kainulainen, Kent; Persson, Claes; Davis, Aaron P.; Wong, Khoon Meng; Razafimandimbison, Sylvain G. & Bremer, Birgitta (2014), "Phylogenetic structure and clade circumscriptions in the Gardenieae complex (Rubiaceae)", Taxon, 63 (4): 801–818, doi:10.12705/634.4
3. Robbrecht, Elmar; Manen, Jean-François (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". Systematics and Geography of Plants. 76 (1): 85–145. JSTOR   20649700.
4. Bremer, Birgitta (2009). "A Review of Molecular Phylogenetic Studies of Rubiaceae 1". Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden. 96 (1): 4–26. doi:10.3417/2006197.
5. Bremer, Birgitta; Eriksson, Torsten (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.
6. Davis, Aaron P.; Chester, Michael; Maurin, Olivier & Fay, Michael F. (2007). "Searching for the relatives of Coffea (Rubiaceae, Ixoroideae): the circumscription and phylogeny of Coffeeae based on plastid sequence data and morphology" . American Journal of Botany. 94 (3): 313–329. doi:10.3732/ajb.94.3.313.