Belongs within: Apocynaceae.
The Vinceae is a clade within the Apocynaceae containing the periwinkles (Vinca and Catharanthus) and related taxa. It was defined by Sennblad & Bremer (2002) as the largest clade containing Vinca and Rauvolfia but not Alyxieae, Aspidospermeae, Carisseae, Hunterieae, Melodineae, Plumerieae, Tabernaemontaneae, Willughbeieae or Apocynoidina. Members of the Vinceae have a style head with a stigmatic hollow and upper and lower hair wreaths (except in some species of Ochrosia), a nectar disk, and a linear hilum on the seed (Sennblad & Bremer 2002). They include the periwinkles of the genera Catharanthus and Vinca, herbs and subshrubs with salverform flowers of which a number of species have become distributed around the world in association with humans.
<==Vinceae | i. s.: LaxoplumeriaSB02 | NeisospermaSB02 | Tonduzia Pittier 1908SB02, KC01 |--Kopsia fruticosaSB02 `--+--OchrosiaSB02 | |--O. coccineaSB02 | `--O. ellipticaH09 `--+--Rauvolfia L. 1753SB02, L95 | |--R. mannii Jacq. 1760 [incl. R. lanceolata DC. 1844]L95 | |--R. nitidaJ87 | |--R. serpentinaSR07 | `--R. viridis Willd. ex Roem. & Schultes 1819 [incl. R. lamarckii DC. 1844]L95 `--+--VincaSB02 | |--V. majorC55 | `--V. minorSB02 `--Catharanthus Don 1837SB02, L95 |--C. coriaceusW92 `--C. roseus (L.) Don 1837 [=Vinca rosea L. 1759, Lochnera rosea (L.) Reichenb. 1828]L95 |--C. r. var. roseusC16 `--‘Vinca rosea’ var. albaC16
*Type species of generic name indicated
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