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Widely distributed family of mostly tropical trees and shrubs and herbs
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rubiaceae
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Rubiaceous \Ru`bi*a"ceous\, a. [L. rubia madder, fr. rubeus red.] (Bot.) Of or pertaining to a very large natural order of plants ( Rubiace[ae] ) named after the madder ( Rubia tinctoria ), and including about three hundred and seventy genera and over four ...
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The Rubiaceae are a family of flowering plants , commonly known as the coffee , madder , or bedstraw family . It consists of terrestrial trees, shrubs, lianas, or herbs that are recognizable by simple, opposite leaves with interpetiolar stipules . The family ...