Candolle (1830) described another tribe, Cordiereae, for the two genera Cordiera A.Rich ex DC. and Tricalysia A.Rich. ex DC. characterized according to him by multilocular bac- cate fruits. Since then, several specialists have worked on the group and proposed different classifications. Among them, Schumann (1891) transferred Cordiereae to Gardenieae as an infratribal group.