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The genus Rubia is in the family Rubiaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Rubia

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See "Status", "Confidence level", "Source" for definitions.

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Rubia agostinhoi Dans. & P.Silva	Accepted		WCSP
Rubia aitchisonii Deb & Malick	Accepted		WCSP
Rubia alaica Pachom.	Accepted		WCSP
Rubia albicaulis Boiss.	Accepted		WCSP
Rubia angustisissima Wall. ex G.Don	Accepted		WCSP
Rubia argyi (H.Lév. & Vaniot) Hara ex Lauener	Accepted		WCSP
Rubia atropurpurea Decne.	Accepted		WCSP
Rubia balearica (Willk.) Porta	Accepted		WCSP
Rubia caramanica Bornm.	Accepted		WCSP
Rubia charifolia Wall. ex G.Don	Accepted		WCSP
Rubia chinensis Regel & Maack	Accepted		WCSP
Rubia chitralensis Ehrend.	Accepted		WCSP
Rubia clematidifolia Blume ex Decne.	Accepted		WCSP
Rubia cordifolia L.	Accepted		WCSP
Rubia crassipes Collett & Hemsl.	Accepted		WCSP
Rubia cretacea Pojark.	Accepted		WCSP
Rubia davisiana Ehrend.	Accepted		WCSP
Rubia deserticola Pojark.	Accepted		WCSP
Rubia discolor Turcz.	Accepted		WCSP
Rubia dolichophylla Schrenk	Accepted		WCSP
Rubia edgeworthii Hook.f.	Accepted		WCSP
Rubia falciformis H.S.Lo	Accepted		WCSP
Rubia filiformis F.C.How ex H.S.Lo	Accepted		WCSP
Rubia florida Boiss.	Accepted		WCSP
Rubia fruticosa Aiton	Accepted		WCSP
Rubia garrettii Craib	Accepted		WCSP
Rubia gedrosiaca Bornm.	Accepted		WCSP
Rubia haematantha Airy Shaw	Accepted		WCSP
Rubia hexaphylla (Makino) Makino	Accepted		WCSP
Rubia himalayensis Klotzsch	Accepted		WCSP
Rubia hispidicaulis D.G.Long	Accepted		WCSP
Rubia horrida (Thunb.) Puff	Accepted		WCSP
Rubia infundibularis Hemsl. & Lace	Accepted		WCSP
Rubia jesoensis (Miq.) Miyabe & Kudo	Accepted		WCSP
Rubia komarovii Pojark.	Accepted		WCSP
Rubia krascheninnikovii Pojark.	Accepted		WCSP
Rubia laevissima Tsckern.	Accepted		WCSP
Rubia latipetala H.S.Lo	Accepted		WCSP
Rubia laurae (Holmboe) Airy Shaw	Accepted		WCSP
Rubia laxiflora Gontsch.	Accepted		WCSP
Rubia linii J.M.Chao	Accepted		WCSP
Rubia magna P.G.Xiao	Accepted		WCSP
Rubia mandersii Collett & Hemsl.	Accepted		WCSP
Rubia manjith Roxb. ex Fleming	Accepted		WCSP
Rubia maymanensis Ehrend. & Schönb.-Tem.	Accepted		WCSP
Rubia membranacea Diels	Accepted		WCSP
Rubia oncotricha Hand.-Mazz.	Accepted		WCSP
Rubia oppositifolia Griff.	Accepted		WCSP
Rubia ovatifolia Z.Ying Zhang ex Q.Lin	Accepted		WCSP
Rubia pallida Diels	Accepted		WCSP
Rubia pauciflora Boiss.	Accepted		WCSP
Rubia pavlovii Bajtenov & Myrz.	Accepted		WCSP
Rubia peregrina L.	Accepted		WCSP
Rubia petiolaris DC.	Accepted		WCSP
Rubia philippinensis Elmer	Accepted		WCSP
Rubia podantha Diels	Accepted		WCSP
Rubia polyphlebia H.S.Lo	Accepted		WCSP
Rubia pterygocaulis H.S.Lo	Accepted		WCSP
Rubia rechingeri Ehrend.	Accepted		WCSP
Rubia regelii Pojark.	Accepted		WCSP
Rubia rezniczenkoana Litv.	Accepted		WCSP
Rubia rigidifolia Pojark.	Accepted		WCSP
Rubia rotundifolia Banks & Sol.	Accepted		WCSP
Rubia salicifolia H.S.Lo	Accepted		WCSP
Rubia schugnanica B.Fedtsch. ex Pojark.	Accepted		WCSP
Rubia schumanniana E.Pritz.	Accepted		WCSP
Rubia siamensis Craib	Accepted		WCSP
Rubia sikkimensis Kurz	Accepted		WCSP
Rubia tatarica (Trevir.) F.Schmidt	Accepted		WCSP
Rubia tenuifolia d'Urv.	Accepted		WCSP
Rubia thunbergii DC.	Accepted		WCSP
Rubia tibetica Hook.f.	Accepted		WCSP
Rubia tinctorum L.	Accepted		WCSP
Rubia transcaucasica Grossh.	Accepted		WCSP
Rubia trichocarpa H.S.Lo	Accepted		WCSP
Rubia truppeliana Loes.	Accepted		WCSP
Rubia wallichiana Decne.	Accepted		WCSP
Rubia yunnanensis Diels	Accepted		WCSP

Statistics

The Plant List includes 216 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Rubia. Of these 78 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 76 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Rubia. We do not intend The Plant List to be complete for names of infraspecific rank. These are primarily included because names of species rank are synonyms of accepted infraspecific names.

Species names

The status of the 216 species names for the genus Rubia recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	78	36.1%
◕	Synonym	133	61.6%
◕	Unplaced	4	1.9%
◕	Unassessed	1	0.5%

All names

The status of the 292 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Rubia recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	85	29.1%
◕	Synonym	202	69.2%
◕	Unplaced	4	1.4%
◕	Unassessed	1	0.3%

Of these names,

• 1 are recorded as invalid
• 7 are recorded as illegitimate

The confidence with which the status of the 216 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Rubia, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	78	133	0	0	211	97.7%
	Medium confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Low confidence	0	0	4	1	5	2.3%

The source of the species name record found in The Plant List for the genus Rubia, are as follows: