Galegeae


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

Classification

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

Subtribe Astragalinae

Carmichaelinae Clade
  • Carmichaelia R. Br.
  • Clianthus Sol. ex Lindl.
  • Montigena Heenan
  • †Streblorrhiza Endl.
  • Swainsona Salisb.
Coluteinae Clade
  • Astragalus L.
  • Biserrula L.
  • Colutea L.
  • Eremosparton Fisch. & C.A.Mey.
  • Erophaca Boiss.
  • Lessertia DC.
  • Ophiocarpus Ikonn.
  • Phyllolobium Fisch. ex Spreng.
  • Podlechiella Maassoumi & Kaz. Osaloo
  • Sphaerophysa DC.
  • Sutherlandia R.Br.
  • incertae sedis
  • * Oreophysa Bornm.
  • * Oxytropis DC.
  • * Smirnowia Bunge

    Subtribe Galeginae

  • Galega 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.