145; see text Guettarda is a plant genus in the family Rubiaceae.

[3] A few others are found on islands and in coastal areas of the Indian and Pacific Oceans.

[5] Guettarda was named by Linnaeus in 1753 in his book Species Plantarum.

[6][7] This generic name is in honour of the 18th century French naturalist Jean-Étienne Guettard.

Molecular phylogenetic studies have found it to be several times polyphyletic with some of its clades paraphyletic over small genera.