Rubiaceae Juss.

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

• APG IV (2016) http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/boj.12385

The Kew Tropical Plant Families Identification Handbook

• Aaron Davis (2020). in Timothy Utteridge & Gemma Bramley (eds) The Kew Tropical Plant Families Identification Handbook, Second Edition. Kew Publishing. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• Bridson, D. M. & Verdcourt, B. (2003). Rubiaceae. In: G. V. Pope (ed.), Flora Zambesiaca 5 (2): 379–720. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
• Davis, A. P. & Bridson, D. M. (2007). Rubiaceae. In: V. H. Heywood, R. K. Brummitt, A. Culham & O. Seberg (eds), Flowering Plant Families of the World, pp. 284–286. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
• Davis, A. P., Govaerts, R., Bridson, D. M., Ruhsam, M., Moat, J. & Brummitt, N. A. (2009). A global assessment of distribution, diversity, endemism, and taxonomic effort in the Rubiaceae. Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 96: 68–78.
• Judd, W. S., Campbell, C. S., Kellogg, E. A. & Stevens, P. F. (1999). Plant Systematics: A Phylogenetic Approach. Sinauer Associates, Inc., Sunderland, MA.
• Robbrecht, E. (1988). Tropical woody Rubiaceae. Opera Bot. Belg. 1: 1–271.

Trees of New Guinea

• Bremer, B., Andreason, K. & Olsson, D. (1995). Subfamilial and tribal relationships in the Rubiaceae based on rbcL sequence data. Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 82: 383–397.
• Bridson, D.M. (1987). Studies in African Rubiaceae: Vanguerieae: A new circumscription of Pyrostria and a new subgenus, Canthium subgen. Bullockia. Kew Bull. 42: 611–639.
• Briggs, M. & Utteridge, T.M.A. (2014). An updated and revised description of Timonius grandifolius (Rubiaceae: Guettardeae) and a new character observation for the tribe Guettardeae. Contributions to the Flora of Mt. Jaya, XIX. Kew Bull. 69: art. 9512.
• Chen, T., Zhu, H., Chen, J., Taylor, C.M., Ehrendorfer, F., Lantz, H. Funston, A.M. & Puff, C. In: Z.-Y. Wu, P.H. Raven, & D.-Y. Hong (eds), Flora of China 19: 57–368. Science Press, Beijing & Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St. Louis.
• Darwin, S.P. (1977). The genus Mastixiodendron (Rubiaceae). J. Arnold Arbor. 58: 349–381.
• Darwin, S.P. (1993). A revision of Timonius subgenus Timonius (Rubiaceae: Guettardeae). Allertonia 7: 1–39.
• Darwin, S.P. (1994). Systematics of Timonius subgenus Abbottia (Rubiaceae-Guettardeae). Syst. Bot. Monogr. 42: 1–86.
• Darwin, S.P. (2010). A taxonomic revision of Timonius subgen. Pseudobobea (Valeton) S.P. Darwin (Rubiaceae). Candollea 65: 217–240.
• Davis, A.P. & Bridson, D.M. (2001). A taxonomic revision of the genus Dolianthus (Rubiaceae). Blumea 46: 421–446.
• Davis, A.P. & Bridson, D.M. (2004). A taxonomic revision of the genus Amaracarpus (Rubiaceae, Psychotrieae). Blumea 49: 25–68.
• Govaerts, R., Ruhsam, M., Andersson, L., Robbrecht, E., Bridson, D.M., Davis, A.P., Schanzer, I. & Sonké, B. (2013). World Checklist of Rubiaceae. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Available at: http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
• Lantz, H. & Bremer, B. (2004). Phylogeny inferred from morphology and DNA data: characterizing well-supported groups in Vanguerieae (Rubiaceae). Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 146: 57–283.
• Marie Briggs (2022). Trees of New Guinea. Timothy M. A. Utteridge and Laura V. S. Jennings (Eds) Kew Publishing. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• Puff, C., Chayamarit, K. & Chamchumroon, V. (2005). Rubiaceae of Thailand. A pictorial guide to indigenous and cultivated genera. The Forest Herbarium, National Park, Wildlife and Plant Conservation Department, Bangkok, Thailand.
• Puttock, C.F. (1999). Revision of Atractocarpus (Rubiaceae: Gardenieae) in Australia and new combinations for some extra-Australian taxa. Austral. Syst. Bot. 12: 271–309.
• Ridsdale, C.E. (1978). A revision of the tribe Naucleeae s.s. (Rubiaceae). Blumea 24: 307–366.
• Ridsdale, C.E. (1996). A review of Aidia s.l. (Rubiaceae) in Southeast Asia and Malesia. Blumea 41: 135–179.
• Ridsdale, C.E., Bakhuizen van den Brink, R.C., & Koek-Noorman, J. (1972) Notes on New Guinea Rubiaceae. Versteegia and Maschalodesma. Blumea 20: 339–348.
• Robbrecht, E. (1988). Tropical woody Rubiaceae. Opera Bot. Belg. 1: 1–271.
• Taylor, C.M., Razafimandimbison, S.G., Barrabé, L., Jardim, J.G. & Barbosa, M.R.V. (2017). Eumachia expanded, a pantropical genus distinct from Psychotria (Rubiaceae, Palicoureeae). Candollea 72: 289–318.
• Utteridge, T.M.A. & Davis, A.P. (2009). Two new combinations in Pyrostria (Rubiaceae, Vanguerieae) from Thailand. Kew Bull. 64: 751–752.
• Wong, K.M. & Pereira, J.T. (2016). A taxonomic treatment of the Asiatic allies of Rothmannia (Rubiaceae: Gardenieae), including the new genera Ridsdalea and Singaporandia. Sandikania 21: 21–64.
• Wong, K.M. (1988) The arborescent Rubiaceae of Malaya: 245 pp. [mimeographed]. Kepong, Forest Research Institute.
• Zhu, H., Roos, M.C. & Ridsdale, C.E. (2012). A taxonomic revision of the Malesian species of Lasianthus (Rubiaceae). Blumea 57: 1–102.

The Kew Temperate Plant Families Identification Handbook

• Bremer, B. & Manen, J. F. (2000). Phylogeny and classification of the subfamily Rubioideae (Rubiaceae). Pl. Syst. Evol. 225: 43–72.
• Chen, T., Zhu, H., Chen, J., Taylor, C. M., Ehrendorfer, F., Lantz, H., Funston, M. & Puff, C. (2011). Rubiaceae. In: Z. Y. Wu, P. H. Raven & D. Y. Hong (eds), Flora of China 19: 57–368. Science Press, Beijing & Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St. Louis.
• Davis, A. P., Govaerts, R., Bridson, D. M., Ruhsam, M., Moat, J. & Brummitt, N. A. (2009). A global assessment of distribution, diversity, endemism, and taxonomic effort in the Rubiaceae. Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 96 (1): 68–78.
• Sally Dawson (2023). Gemma Bramley, Anna Trias-Blasi & Richard Wilford In: The Kew Temperate Plant Families Identification Handbook. Kew Publishing Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• Soza, V. L. & Olmstead, R. G. (2010). Molecular systematics of tribe Rubieae (Rubiaceae): evolution of major clades, development of leaf-like whorls, and biogeography. Taxon 59 (3): 755–771.
• Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M. & Valentine, D. H. (eds) (1976). Flora Europaea 4. Plantaginaceae to Compositae (and Rubiaceae). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge & New York.