Spermacoceae
Translingual
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Spermacoce articularis, one of the Spermacoceae
Etymology
Spermacoce + -eae
Proper noun
Spermacoceae
- A taxonomic tribe within the family Rubiaceae – more than 1,200 species in about 60 genera of tropical and subtropical flowering plants.
Hypernyms
- (tribe): Eukaryota - superkingdom; Plantae - kingdom; Viridiplantae - subkingdom; Streptophyta - infrakingdom; Embryophyta - superphylum; Tracheophyta - phylum; Spermatophytina - subphylum; angiosperms, eudicots, core eudicots, asterids, euasterids I - clades; Gentianales - order; Rubiaceae - family, Rubioideae - subfamily
Hyponyms
- (tribe): Arcytophyllum, Crusea, Dentella, Diodia, Ernodea, Hedyotis, Houstonia, Kadua, Manettia, Mitracarpus, Oldenlandia, Opercularia, Planaltina, Richardia, Spermacoce, Staelia, Stenaria, Tessiera - selected genera
References
Spermacoceae on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Spermacoceae on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Spermacoceae on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
- Spermacoceae at APWeb
- Spermacoceae at Encyclopedia of Life
- Spermacoceae at National Center for Biotechnology Information
- Spermacoceae at Tropicos
- Spermacoceae at APWeb