Rudgea

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Rudgea is a genus of plant in the family Rubiaceae.

Species include:{{Citation needed|date=November 2010}}

Rudgea casarettoana Müll.Arg.
Rudgea crassifolia Zappi & E.Lucas
Rudgea obesiflora Standl.
Rudgea parquioides (Cham.) Müll.Arg.
Rudgea stenophylla (Krause) Standl.

The name was given by Richard Anthony Salisbury to honour Edward Rudge in 1806.{{cite DNB |wstitle=Rudge, Edward |first=Bernard Barham |last=Woodward |author-link=Bernard Barham Woodward |volume=49 |quote=citing: (Trans. of Linn. Soc. viii. 326)}}

References

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Salisbury, R.A. (1807) [https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/766806 Description of a new Genus in the Natural Order of Rubiaceæ, called Rudgea. (p.326)] Transactions of the Linnean Society of London. London. 8:326

Salisbury, R.A. (1807) [https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/766805 Description of a new Genus in the Natural Order of Rubiaceæ, called Rudgea. (p.325)] Transactions of the Linnean Society of London. London. 8:325

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External links

[https://www.jstor.org/stable/3391727 Rudgea tayloriae (Rubiaceae), an Unusual New Species from the Eastern Slopes of the Venezuelan Andes] Gerardo Aymard C., L. J. Dorr and Nidia Cuello Novon Vol. 9, No. 3 (Autumn, 1999), pp. 315–317

Category:Rubiaceae genera

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