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Gentians, Dogbanes, Madders, and Allies
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Gentians, Dogbanes, Madders, and Allies

Gentianales

Gentianales is an order of flowering plants, included within the asterid clade of eudicots. It comprises more than 16,000 species in about 1,138 genera in 5 families. More than 80% of the species in this order belong to the Rubiaceae family.

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5 branches of this order, most-observed first

Dogbane Family

familyApocynaceae

madder family

familyRubiaceae

gentian family

familyGentianaceae

logania family

familyLoganiaceae

Gelsemiaceae

familyGelsemiaceae

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 47363.