| Tarenna | |
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| Tarenna nilagirica | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Gentianales |
| Family: | Rubiaceae |
| Subfamily: | Ixoroideae |
| Tribe: | Pavetteae |
| Genus: | Tarenna Gaertn. |
| Type species | |
| Tarenna asiatica (L.) Kuntze ex K.Schum. | |
| Synonyms [1] | |
Tarenna is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. There are about 193 species distributed across the old world tropics of Africa, Asia, Australia, and the Pacific Islands. [1] Petra De Block et al. have assigned several species formerly included in Tarenna to other genera, Cladoceras , Sonbridia , and Nesotarenna within the tribe Pavetteae. [2] They are shrubs or trees with oppositely arranged leaves and terminal arrays of whitish, greenish, or yellowish flowers. [3]
