Augusta (plant genus)
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Augusta is a genus
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...

 of flowering plant
Flowering plant
The flowering plants , also known as Angiospermae or Magnoliophyta, are the most diverse group of land plants. Angiosperms are seed-producing plants like the gymnosperms and can be distinguished from the gymnosperms by a series of synapomorphies...

s in the Rubiaceae
Rubiaceae
The Rubiaceae is a family of flowering plants, variously called the coffee family, madder family, or bedstraw family. The group contains many commonly known plants, including the economically important coffee , quinine , and gambier , and the horticulturally valuable madder , west indian jasmine ,...

 family
Family (biology)
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. It is found from Mexico
Mexico
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 to Brazil
Brazil
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 and in the southwestern Pacific.

Species

  • Augusta austrocaledonica (Brongn.) J.H.Kirkbr.
  • Augusta longifolia (Spreng.) Rehder
  • Augusta rivalis (Benth.) J.H.Kirkbr.
  • Augusta vitiensis (Seem.) J.H.Kirkbr.
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