Rubeae (Tribe)

Overview

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Taxonomy

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The Tribe Rubeae is a member of the Subfamily Rosoideae. Here is the complete "parentage" of Rubeae:

Domain: Eukaryota Whittaker & Margulis,1978 - eukaryotes
- Kingdom: Plantae Haeckel, 1866 - Plants
  - Subkingdom: Viridaeplantae Cavalier-Smith, 1981 - Green Plants
    - Phylum: Tracheophyta Sinnott, 1935 ex Cavalier-Smith, 1998 - Vascular Plants
      - Subphylum: Euphyllophytina
        Infraphylum: Radiatopses Kenrick & Crane, 1997
        Class: Magnoliopsida Brongniart, 1843 - Dicotyledons
        Subclass: Rosidae Takhtajan, 1967
        Superorder: Rosanae Takhtajan, 1967
        Order: Rosales Perleb, 1826
        Family: Rosaceae (ro-ZAY-see-ee) A.L. de Jussieu, 1789, nom. cons.
        Subfamily: Rosoideae
        Tribe: Rubeae

The Tribe Rubeae is further organized into finer groupings including:

Genus (1): Rubus
Species: ZipcodeZoo has pages for 13,221 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in the Tribe Rubeae.

Genera

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Rubus

Rubus is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rosaceae, subfamily Rosoideae. These plants have prickles like roses and are often called brambles; this name is most often used for the blackberry and similar fruits that are also of rambling habit, and not used for those like the raspberry that grow as upright canes. Their fruit, called bramble fruit, is an aggregate of drupelets. [more]

At least 13,221 species and subspecies belong to the Genus Rubus.

More info about the Genus Rubus may be found here.

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