Galegeae is a
tribe
The term tribe is used in many different contexts to refer to a category of human social group. The predominant worldwide usage of the term in English language, English is in the discipline of anthropology. This definition is contested, in p ...
in the flowering plant family Fabaceae, subfamily
Faboideae
The Faboideae are a subfamily of the flowering plant family Fabaceae or Leguminosae. An acceptable alternative name for the subfamily is Papilionoideae, or Papilionaceae when this group of plants is treated as a family.
This subfamily is wide ...
. The tribe is found mostly in the northern hemisphere, but can also be found in Australia, Africa, and South America. Recent
molecular phylogenetic
Molecular phylogenetics () is the branch of phylogeny that analyzes genetic, hereditary molecular differences, predominantly in DNA sequences, to gain information on an organism's evolutionary relationships. From these analyses, it is possible to ...
work has determined that tribe Galegeae is
paraphyletic
In taxonomy (general), taxonomy, a group is paraphyletic if it consists of the group's most recent common ancestor, last common ancestor and most of its descendants, excluding a few Monophyly, monophyletic subgroups. The group is said to be pa ...
, and that its members are scattered throughout the
IR-lacking clade.
Classification
The tribe Galegeae contains roughly twenty genera.
Indigofereae
The tribe Indigofereae is a subdivision of the plant family Fabaceae. It is consistently recovered as a monophyletic clade in molecular phylogenies. The Indigofereae arose 30.0 ± 3.3 million years ago (in the Oligocene).
This tribe does not ...
and
Psoraleeae
The tribe Psoraleeae is one of the subdivisions of the plant family Fabaceae. Recent phylogenetics has this tribe nested within tribe Phaseoleae.
Genera
Psoraleeae comprises the following genera:
* '' Bituminaria'' Heist. ''ex'' Fabr.
* '' Cul ...
were once included as subtribes, but have since been elevated as distinct tribes.
Subtribe Astragalinae
''Carmichaelinae'' Clade
* ''
Carmichaelia
''Carmichaelia'' (New Zealand brooms) is a genus of 24 plant species belonging to Fabaceae, the legume family. All but one species are native to New Zealand; the exception, '' Carmichaelia exsul'', is native to Lord Howe Island and presumably dis ...
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R. Br.
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Clianthus
''Clianthus'', commonly known as kakabeak (''kōwhai ngutukākā'' in Māori), is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family Fabaceae, comprising two species of shrubs native to New Zealand. They have striking clusters of red flowers whi ...
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Sol. ''ex'' Lindl.
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Montigena
''Montigena'' is a genus of flowering plant in the legume family (biology), family Fabaceae, comprising a single species of dicotyledonous herb native plant, native to New Zealand, known as ''Montigena novae-zelandiae'' or more commonly the scre ...
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(Hook. f.) Heenan
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Streblorrhiza''
Endl.
* ''
Swainsona''
Salisb.
''Coluteinae'' Clade
* ''
Astragalus
''Astragalus'' is a large genus of over 3,000 species of herbs and small shrubs, belonging to the legume family Fabaceae and the subfamily Faboideae. It is the largest genus of plants in terms of described species. The genus is native to tempe ...
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L.
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Biserrula
''Biserrula'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae, found in Portugal (including Madeira and Selvagens), the Canary Islands, all the Mediterranean countries, the Arabian peninsula, and in east Africa as far south as Tanzania. '' ...
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L.
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Colutea
''Colutea'' is a genus of about 25 species of deciduous flowering shrubs in the legume family Fabaceae, growing from 2–5 m tall, native to southern Europe, north Africa and southwest Asia. The leaves are pinnate and light green to glaucous gr ...
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L.
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Eremosparton''
Fisch. & C.A.Mey.
* ''
Erophaca''
Boiss.
* ''
Lessertia''
DC.
* ''
Ophiocarpus''
(Bunge) Ikonn.
* ''
Phyllolobium''
Fisch. ''ex'' Spreng.
* ''
Podlechiella''
Maassoumi & Kaz. Osaloo
* ''
Sphaerophysa''
DC.
* ''
Sutherlandia
''Sutherlandia'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae containing six known living species. The genus was once organized as having a single species, ''S. frutescens'', but later expanded to include more based on morphological ch ...
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R.Br.
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incertae sedis
' () or ''problematica'' is a term used for a taxonomic group where its broader relationships are unknown or undefined. Alternatively, such groups are frequently referred to as "enigmatic taxa". In the system of open nomenclature, uncertainty ...
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Oreophysa''
(Bunge ''ex'' Boiss.) Bornm.
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Oxytropis
''Oxytropis'' is a genus of plants in the legume family. It is one of three genera of plants known as locoweeds, and are notorious for being toxic to grazing animals. The other locoweed genus is the closely related ''Astragalus''. There are abo ...
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DC.
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Smirnowia''
Bunge
Subtribe Galeginae
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Galega''
L.
Subtribe Glycyrrhizinae
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Glycyrrhiza
''Glycyrrhiza'' is a genus of about 20 accepted species in the legume family (Fabaceae), with a subcosmopolitan distribution in Asia, Australia, Europe, and the Americas.
The genus is best known for liquorice (British English; licorice in Amer ...
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L.
Molecular phylogenetic analysis have found tribe Galegeae to be polyphyletic, with the three subtribes recovered in different part of the
inverted repeat-lacking clade
The inverted repeat-lacking clade (IRLC) is a monophyletic clade of the flowering plant subfamily Faboideae (or Papilionaceae). Faboideae includes the majority of agriculturally-cultivated legumes. The name of this clade is informal and is not ...
.
Notes
References
External links
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Fabaceae tribes
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