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Genus: Tricalysia

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 100 species, found in tropical regions of the Old World, with 7 species in southern Africa.

Publications

  • Bridson, D.M. & Verdcourt, B. 1988. Flora of Tropical East Africa. Rubiaceae (part 2): 415-747.

  • Robbrecht, E. 1979. The African genus Tricalysia A. Rich. (Rubiaceae - Coffeeae). 1. A revision of the species of the subgenus Empogona. Bulletin du Jardin Botanique National de Belgique 49: 239-360.

  

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