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Genus: Keetia

Life > eukaryotes > Archaeoplastida > Chloroplastida > Charophyta > Streptophytina > Plantae (land plants) > Tracheophyta (vascular plants) > Euphyllophyta > Lignophyta (woody plants) > Spermatophyta (seed plants) > Angiospermae (flowering plants) >  Eudicotyledons >  Core Eudicots >  Asterids >  Euasterid I > Order: Gentianales >  Family: Rubiaceae

About 40 species, occurring in tropical Africa, with one species, Keetia gueinzii, in southern Africa.

Publications

  • Bridson, D.M. 1986. The reinstatement of the African genus Keetia (Rubiaceae subfam. Cinchonoideae, tribe Vanguerieae). Kew Bulletin 41: 965-994.

  • Bridson, D.M. 1998. Rubiaceae. Flora Zambesiaca 5,2: 211-377.

  

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