asterid dicot genus - genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs

family Rubiaceae, madder family, Rubiaceae - widely distributed family of mostly tropical trees and shrubs and herbs; includes coffee and chinchona and gardenia and madder and bedstraws and partridgeberry

Nauclea diderrichii, opepe, Sarcocephalus diderrichii - large African forest tree yielding a strong hard yellow to golden brown lumber; sometimes placed in genus Sarcocephalus