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

bitter-bark, Georgia bark, Pinckneya pubens, fever tree - ornamental shrub or small tree of swampy areas in southwestern United States having large pink or white sepals and yielding Georgia bark for treating fever