# Coffeeae

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**Coffeeae** is a [tribe](/source/Tribe_(biology)) of [flowering plants](/source/Flowering_plant) in the [family](/source/Family_(taxonomy)) [Rubiaceae](/source/Rubiaceae) and contains about 333 [species](/source/Species) in 11 [genera](/source/Genus). Its representatives are found in tropical and southern Africa, [Madagascar](/source/Madagascar), the western Indian Ocean, tropical and subtropical Asia, and [Queensland](/source/Queensland).[1]

## Genera

Currently accepted names[1][2][3][4][5][6]

- *[Argocoffeopsis](/source/Argocoffeopsis)* Lebrun (8 sp)
- *[Belonophora](/source/Belonophora)* [Hook.f.](/source/Joseph_Dalton_Hooker) (5 sp)
- *[Calycosiphonia](/source/Calycosiphonia)* Pierre ex [Robbr.](/source/Elmar_Robbrecht) (2 sp)
- *[Coffea](/source/Coffea)* [L.](/source/Carl_Linnaeus) (137 sp)
- *[Diplospora](/source/Diplospora)* [DC.](/source/Augustin_Pyramus_de_Candolle) (23 sp)
- *[Discospermum](/source/Discospermum)* [Dalzell](/source/Nicol_Alexander_Dalzell) (13 sp)
- *[Empogona](/source/Empogona)* [Hook.f.](/source/Joseph_Dalton_Hooker) (30 sp)
- *[Kupeantha](/source/Kupeantha)* Cheek (6 sp)
- *[Nostolachma](/source/Nostolachma)* [T.Durand](/source/Th%C3%A9ophile_Alexis_Durand) (6 sp)
- *[Sericanthe](/source/Sericanthe)* [Robbr.](/source/Elmar_Robbrecht) (22 sp)
- *[Tricalysia](/source/Tricalysia)* [A.Rich.](/source/Achille_Richard) ex [DC.](/source/Augustin_Pyramus_de_Candolle) (81 sp)

Synonyms[1]

- *Argocoffea* = *[Argocoffeopsis](/source/Argocoffeopsis)*
- *Bunburya* = *[Tricalysia](/source/Tricalysia)*
- *Buseria* = *[Coffea](/source/Coffea)*
- *Cafe* = *[Coffea](/source/Coffea)*
- *Cofeanthus* = *[Coffea](/source/Coffea)*
- *Diplocrater* = *[Tricalysia](/source/Tricalysia)*
- *Diplosporopsis* = *[Belonophora](/source/Belonophora)*
- *Discocoffea* = *[Tricalysia](/source/Tricalysia)*
- *Eriostoma* = *[Tricalysia](/source/Tricalysia)*
- *Hexepta* = *[Coffea](/source/Coffea)*
- *Hymendocarpum* = *[Nostolachma](/source/Nostolachma)*
- *Kerstingia* = *[Belonophora](/source/Belonophora)*
- *Lachnastoma* = *[Nostolachma](/source/Nostolachma)*
- *Leiochilus* = *[Coffea](/source/Coffea)*
- *Natalanthe* = *[Tricalysia](/source/Tricalysia)*
- *Neorosea* = *[Tricalysia](/source/Tricalysia)*
- *Nescidia* = *[Coffea](/source/Coffea)*
- *Paolia* = *[Coffea](/source/Coffea)*
- *Paracoffea* = *[Coffea](/source/Coffea)*
- *Pleurocoffea* = *[Coffea](/source/Coffea)*
- *Probletostemon* = *[Tricalysia](/source/Tricalysia)*
- *Psilanthopsis* = *[Coffea](/source/Coffea)*
- *Psilanthus* = *[Coffea](/source/Coffea)*
- *Rosea* = *[Tricalysia](/source/Tricalysia)*
- *Solenixora* = *[Coffea](/source/Coffea)*
- *Xantonnea* = *[Discospermum](/source/Discospermum)*

## References

1. POWO (2022). ["Plants of the World Online"](https://web.archive.org/web/20170322171139/http://plantsoftheworldonline.org/). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Archived from [the original](http://www.plantsoftheworldonline.org) on March 22, 2017. Retrieved 2022-03-18.

1. Robbrecht E, Manen JF (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"](https://www.jstor.org/stable/20649700). *Systematic Geography of Plants*. **76** (1): 85–146. [JSTOR 20649700](https://www.jstor.org/stable/20649700)

1. Davis AP, Chester M, Maurin O, Fay MF (2007). "Searching for the relatives of *Coffea* (Rubiaceae, Ixoroideae): the circumscription and phylogeny of Coffeeae based on plastid sequence data and morphology". *American Journal of Botany*. **94** (3): 313–329. [doi:10.3732/ajb.94.3.313](https://doi.org/10.3732/ajb.94.3.313). [PMID 21636404](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21636404)

1. Tosh J, Davis AP, Dessein S (2007). ["Phylogeny of *Tricalysia*: Resurrection of the genus *Empogona*"](https://lirias.kuleuven.be/handle/123456789/249085). *Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden*. **96**: 194–213. [doi:10.3417/2006202](https://doi.org/10.3417/2006202). [S2CID 86826332](https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:86826332)

1. Bremer B (2009). "A review of molecular phylogenetic studies of Rubiaceae". *Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden*. **96**: 4–26. [doi:10.3417/2006197](https://doi.org/10.3417/2006197). [S2CID 53378010](https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:53378010)

1. Bremer B, Eriksson E (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](https://doi.org/10.1086/599077). [S2CID 49332892](https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:49332892)

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