Fernelia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. The genus is endemic to the Mascarene Islands.
Taxonomy It was validly published by Jean-Baptiste Lamarck in 1788 based on previous work by Philibert Commerson.Fernelia Comm. ex Lam. (n.d.). Plants of the World Online. Retrieved September 20, 2025, from https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:34607-1Lamarck, Jean-Baptiste-Pierre-Antoine de Monet de, & Poiret, Jean-Louis-Marie. (1783). Encyclopédie méthodique. Botanique (Vol. 2, p. 452). Panckoucke;Plomteux. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/721106 Fernelia was identified as the sister group to the genus Ramosmania Kainulainen, K., Razafimandimbison, S. G., Wikström, N., & Bremer, B. (2017). Island hopping, long‐distance dispersal and species radiation in the Western Indian Ocean: Historical biogeography of the Coffeeae alliance (Rubiaceae). Journal of Biogeography, 44(9), 1966-1979.Mouly, A., Kainulainen, K., Persson, C., Davis, A. P., Wong, K. M., Razafimandimbison, S. G., & Bremer, B. (2014). Phylogenetic structure and clade circumscriptions in the Gardenieae complex (Rubiaceae). Taxon, 63(4), 801–818. http://www.jstor.org/stable/taxon.63.4.801 Species Fernelia buxifolia Fernelia decipiens Fernelia obovata Fernelia pedunculata
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