Galegeae

Galegeae
Galega officinalis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Eudicots
(unranked):	Rosids
Order:	Fabales
Family:	Fabaceae
Subfamily:	Faboideae
Tribe:	Galegeae (Bronn) Torr. & Gray
Type genus
Galega L.
Synonyms
Astragaleae

Galegeae is a tribe of the subfamily Faboideae. The tribe is found mostly in the northern hemisphere, but can also be found in Australia, Africa, and South America. ^[1] Recent molecular phylogenetic work has determined that tribe Galegeae is paraphyletic, and that its members are scattered throughout the IR-lacking clade.^[2]

Classification

The tribe Galegeae contains roughly twenty genera.^[3] Indigofereae and Psoraleeae were once included as subtribes, but have since been elevated as distinct tribes.^[4]

Subtribe Astragalinae

• Clade Carmichaelinae^[5]
  • Carmichaelia R. Br.
  • Clianthus Sol. ex Lindl.
  • Montigena (Hook. f.) Heenan^{[Note 1]}
  • Streblorrhiza Endl.
  • Swainsona Salisb.
• Clade Coluteinae^[5]
  • Astragalus L.
  • Colutea L.
  • Eremosparton Fisch. & C.A.Mey.
  • Lessertia DC.
  • Sphaerophysa DC.
  • Sutherlandia R.Br.^{[Note 2]}
• incertae sedis
  • Biserrula L.^{[Note 3]}
  • Chesneya Lindl. ex Endl.
  • Erophaca Boiss.^{[Note 3]}
  • Gueldenstaedtia Fisch.
  • Oreophysa (Bunge ex Boiss.) Bornm.
  • Oxytropis DC.
  • Phyllolobium Fisch. ex Spreng.^{[Note 3]}
  • Podlechiella Maassoumi & Kaz. Osaloo^{[Note 3]}
  • Smirnowia Bunge
  • Spongiocarpella Yakovlev & N. Ulziykh.
  • Tibetia (Ali) H. P. Tsui^{[Note 4]}

Subtribe Galeginae

• Galega L.

Notes

1. Possibly synonymous with Swainsona
2. Possibly synonymous with Lessertia
3. Possibly synonymous with Astragalus
4. Possibly synonymous with Gueldenstaedtia

References

1. Dassanayake, M. D.; et al. (1980). A Revised Handbook to the Flora of Ceylon. Taylor & Francis. p. 109. ISBN 90-6191-064-1.
2. Wojciechowski MF, Sanderson MJ, Steele KP, Liston A. (2000). "Molecular phylogeny of the “temperate herbaceous tribes” of papilionoid legumes: a supertree approach" (PDF). In Herendeen PS, Bruneau A.. Advances in Legume Systematics, Part 9. Kew, UK: Royal Botanic Gardens. pp. 277–298. ISBN 184246017X.
3. "GRIN Taxonomy for Plants; tribe Galegeae". Germplasm Resources Information Network. Retrieved 2007-09-09.
4. Rydberg, P. A. (1923). "Genera of North American Fabaceae. I. Tribe Galegeae". American Journal of Botany 10 (9): 485–498. doi:10.2307/2446388. JSTOR 2446388.
5. Wagstaff, Steven J.; Peter B. Heenan; Michael J. Sanderson (1999). "Classification, origins, and patterns of diversification in New Zealand Carmichaelia (Fabaceae)". American Journal of Botany 86 (9): 1346–1356. doi:10.2307/2656781. JSTOR 2656781. PMID 10487821. Retrieved 2010-08-05.

External links

• Data related to Galegeae at Wikispecies
• Media related to Galegeae at Wikimedia Commons