Octotropideae

Octotropideae is a tribe of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae and contains about 103 species in 18 genera. Its representatives are found in the paleotropics.^[1] The genera previously placed in the tribe Hypobathreae are now placed in Octotropideae.^[2]

Octotropideae
Kraussia floribunda
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Asterids
Order:	Gentianales
Family:	Rubiaceae
Subfamily:	Ixoroideae
Tribe:	Octotropideae Bedd.
Type genus
Octotropis Bedd.

Genera

Currently accepted names^[1][3][4][5]

• Canephora Juss. (5 sp) - Madagascar
• Didymosalpinx Keay (5 sp) - Tropical Africa
• Feretia Delile (4 sp) - Tropical and Southern Africa
• Fernelia Comm. ex Lam. (4 sp) - Mascarene Islands
• Flagenium Baill. (6 sp) - Madagascar
• Galiniera Delile (2 sp) - Tropical Africa, Madagascar
• Hypobathrum Blume (31 sp) - Tropical Asia
• Jovetia Guédès (1 sp) - Madagascar
• Kraussia Harv. (4 sp) - Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique, South Africa, Socotra
• Lamprothamnus Hiern (1 sp) - Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania
• Lemyrea (A.Chev.) A.Chev. & Beille (4 sp) - Madagascar
• Nargedia Bedd. (1 sp) - Sri Lanka
• Octotropis Bedd. (1 sp) - India
• Paragenipa Baill. (1 sp) - Seychelles
• Polysphaeria Hook.f. (22 sp) - Tropical Africa, Madagascar
• Pouchetia A.Rich. ex DC. (4 sp) - Western Tropical Africa to Sudan and Northern Angola
• Ramosmania Tirveng. & Verdc. (2 sp) - Rodrigues
• Villaria Rolfe (5 sp) - Philippines

Possibly placed here:^[6]

• Xantonneopsis Pit. (1 sp.) – Vietnam

Synonyms

• Exosolenia Baill. ex Drake = Lemyrea
• Higginsia Blume = Hypobathrum
• Petunga DC. = Hypobathrum
• Phylanthera Noronha = Hypobathrum
• Platymerium Bartl. ex DC. = Hypobathrum
• Ptychostigma Hochst. = Galiniera
• Rhabdostigma Hook.f. = Kraussia
• Spicillaria A.Rich. = Hypobathrum