Octotropidae

Life-forms

Classification System: APG IV

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Cladus: Angiosperms
Cladus: Eudicots
Cladus: Core eudicots
Cladus: Asterids
Cladus: Lamiids
Ordo: Gentianales

Familia: Rubiaceae
Subfamilia: Ixoroideae
Tribus: Octotropideae
Genera: Canephora – Chapelieria – Cowiea – Cremaspora – Feretia – Fernelia – Flagenium – Galiniera – Gallienia – Hypobathrum – Hyptianthera – Jovetia – Kraussia – Lamprothamnus – Lemyrea – Morindopsis – Nargedia – Octotropis – Paragenipa – Petitiocodon – Polysphaeria – Pouchetia – Pubistylus – Ramosmania – Rhadinopus – Scyphostachys – Villaria – Xantonneopsis – Zuccarinia
Name

Octotropideae Bedd., Fl. Sylv. S. India 28: cxxvi, cxxxiv-12. (1873)

Type genus: Octotropis Bedd., Fl. Sylv. S. India t. 327. (1873)

Synonyms

Heterotypic
Cremasporinae Bremek. ex Verdc., Bull. Jard. Bot. État Bruxelles 28: 281. (1958)
Cremasporeae Bremek. ex S.P.Darwin, Taxon 25: 601. (1976)
Hypobathreae Robbr., Bull. Jard. Bot. Natl. Belg. 50(1-2): 75. (1980)

References

Beddome, R.H. 1873. Flora Sylvatica for Southern India 28 :cxxvi, cxxxiv-12.
Bremer, B. 2009. A review of molecular phylogenetic studies of Rubiaceae. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 96: 4–26. DOI: 10.3417/2006197 JSTOR Reference page.
Bremer, B. & Eriksson, T. 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 PDF Reference page.
Kainulainen, K., Razafimandimbison, S.G. & Bremer, B. 2013. Phylogenetic relationships and new tribal delimitations in subfamily Ixoroideae (Rubiaceae). Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 173(3): 387-406. DOI: 10.1111/boj.12038 PDF Reference page.
Robbrecht, E. 1980. The Hypobathreae (Rubiaceae-Ixoroideae). 1. Delimitation and division of a new tribe. Bulletin du Jardin botanique national de Belgique/Bulletin van de Nationale Plantentuin van Belgie 50(1/2): 69-77. DOI: 10.2307/3667775
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. Systematics and Geography of Plants 76: 85-145. JSTOR PDF Reference page.
Tosh, J., De Block, P., Davis, A.P., Dessein, S., Robbrecht, E. & Smets, E.F. 2008. The tribal placement of the monospecific tropical African genus Petitiocodon (Rubiaceae) based on molecular data and morphology. Blumea-Biodiversity, Evolution and Biogeography of Plants 53(3): 549-565. DOI: 10.3767/000651908X607503 Open access Reference page.

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]
Genera

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

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

Synonyms

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

References

"World Checklist of Rubiaceae". Retrieved April 2016. Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
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.
Bremer B (2009). "A review of molecular phylogenetic studies of Rubiaceae". Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden. 96: 4–26. doi:10.3417/2006197.
Bremer B, Eriksson E (2009). "Time tree of Rubiaceae: phylogeny and dating the family, subfamilies, and tribes". International Journal of Plant Sciences. 170: 766–793. doi:10.1086/599077.