Tarenna

Tarenna
Tarenna nilagirica
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Asterids
Order:	Gentianales
Family:	Rubiaceae
Subfamily:	Ixoroideae
Tribe:	Pavetteae
Genus:	Tarenna Gaertn.
Synonyms
Bonatia Schltr. & K.Krause Camptophytum Pierre ex A.Chev. Canthiopsis Seem. Chomelia L. Cupi Adans. Flemingia W.Hunter Wahlenbergia Blume Webera Schreb.

Tarenna is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. There are about 192 species distributed across the tropical world, from Africa, Asia, Australia to the Pacific Islands.^[1] They are shrubs or trees with oppositely arranged leaves and terminal arrays of whitish, greenish, or yellowish flowers.^[2]

Selected species

• Tarenna agumbensis Sundararagh.
• Tarenna drummondii Bridson
• Tarenna hoaensis Pit.
• Tarenna luhomeroensis Bridson
• Tarenna monosperma (Wight & Arn.) D.C.S.Raju
• Tarenna nilagirica (Bedd.) Bremek.
• Tarenna quadrangularis Bremek.
• Tarenna sambucina (G.Forst.) T.Durand ex Drake
• Tarenna sechellensis (Baker) Summerh.

Image gallery

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  Tarenna asiatica
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  Tarenna asiatica
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  Tarenna stellulata

References

Media related to Tarenna at Wikimedia Commons