Spermacoceae

Bouvardia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. It contains about 50 species of evergreen herbs and shrubs native to Mexico and Central America, with one species extending into the southwestern United States (B. ternifolia, in Arizona, New Mexico and Texas). The genus is named in honor of Charles Bouvard (1572–1658), physician to Louis XIII, and superintendent of the Jardin du Roi in Paris.

Diodia (or buttonweed) is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. It was described by Carl Linnaeus in 1753. The genus is found from southern and eastern United States, South America, Central America, Mexico, the West Indies and tropical Africa.

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Dentella is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. Most species genus are endemic to Australia, with one species also extending through southeast Asia to subtropical Asia and the southwestern Pacific.

Mitracarpus is a plant genus in the coffee family Rubiaceae. Girdlepod is a common name for some species in this genus.

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Agathisanthemum is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. It was described by Johann Friedrich Klotzsch in 1861. It is found in tropical and southern Africa, on the Comoros and in Madagascar.

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Amphiasma is a genus of 7 species of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. It was described by Cornelis Bremekamp in 1952. The genus is found from southern Tanzania to Namibia.

Crusea (common name saucer flower) is a genus of angiosperms (flowering plants) in the family Rubiaceae. The genus is found in the south-western United States (Arizona and New Mexico), Mexico, and Central America. A few species are naturalized in Cuba and Puerto Rico.

Conostomium is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. The genus is found from Ethiopia to South Africa.

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Cordylostigma is a genus in the Rubiaceae. The name was coined in 2010 to contain 9 species formerly belonging to the related genus Kohautia. The nine species are native to tropical and southern Africa from Guinea to Somalia to South Africa, as well as Madagascar, Comoros, and Réunion.

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Amphistemon is a genus of 2 species of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. It is described by Inge Groeninckx in 2010 based on a molecular analysis of the Hedyotis-Oldenlandia group. The genus name is based on the Greek 'amphi-' (=double or of two kinds) and 'stemon' (=stamen) referring to the dimorphic stamen position characteristic for this genus.

Richardia (Mexican-clover) is a genus of about fifteen species of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. They are native to tropical to warm, temperate regions of the Americas, with one species also native to Fiji. They are mostly annual plants, though a few species are herbaceous perennial plants.

Leptopetalum is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. The genus is widespread in tropical and subtropical Asia and the Pacific.

Galianthe is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. The genus is found from Mexico to tropical America.

species of plant from tropical and subtropical Asia to the south-western Pacific

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Oldenlandiopsis (creeping-bluet) is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. It is monospecific, comprising only one species, Oldenlandiopsis callitrichoides. This species had previously been placed in Hedyotis or in Oldenlandia. It is native to the West Indies, southern Mexico, and Central America. It is naturalized elsewhere, including Florida, Hawaii, South America, and tropical Africa.

Dibrachionostylus is a monotypic genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. The genus contains only one species, viz. Dibrachionostylus kaessneri, which is endemic to Kenya.

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Arcytophyllum is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. The genus contains 18 species, distributed from New Mexico to Bolivia.

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Phylohydrax is a genus of plants in the family Rubiaceae. Its species are native to Madagascar, Tanzania and South Africa.

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Gomphocalyx is a monotypic genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. The genus contains only one species, viz. Gomphocalyx herniarioides, which is endemic to Madagascar.

Stenaria is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. It is a small genus, consisting of around six species native to the United States, Mexico, and The Bahamas. All species of Stenaria are restricted to Mexico and the southwestern United States, except for the wide-ranging Stenaria nigricans which extends northward and eastward.

Spermacoceae is a tribe of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae and contains about 1346 species in 57 genera. Its representatives are found in the tropics and subtropics.

Emmeorhiza is a monotypic genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. The genus contains only one species, viz. Emmeorhiza umbellata, which is found from northern Trinidad to tropical South America.

Carterella is a monotypic genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. The genus contains only one species, viz. Carterella alexanderae, which is endemic to Baja California Sur in Mexico. It grows on steep slopes in the mountains.

Scleromitrion is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae, native to tropical and subtropical Asia and the western Pacific. The genus was first established in 1834 as a section of the genus Hedyotis, H. sect. Scleromitrion, and was raised to a full genus in 1838.

Hydrophylax is a monotypic genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. It was described by Carl Linnaeus the Younger in 1782. The genus contains only one species, Hydrophylax maritima, which is found in India, Sri Lanka and Thailand.

Exallage is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. The genus is found from tropical and subtropical Asia to the southwestern Pacific.

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Nesohedyotis is a genus of flowering plants endemic to the island of Saint Helena in the South Atlantic Ocean. It in the family Rubiaceae (the family that includes coffee).

Astiella is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. It was described by Jovet (1941) as a monospecific, herbaceous genus, endemic to Madagascar. Later, 11 new species endemic to Madagascar were added to the genus.

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Denscantia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. The genus is native to the Atlantic Forest of eastern Brazil.

Edrastima is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. The genus widespread and is found in Central and Eastern USA and the tropics and subtropics.

Schwendenera is a monotypic genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. The genus contains only one species, viz. Schwendenera tetrapyxis, which is endemic to Brazil.

Anthospermopsis is a monotypic genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. It was described by Joseph Harold Kirkbride Jr. in 1997. The genus contains only one species, viz. Anthospermopsis catechosperma, which is endemic to Bahia, Brazil.