Galegeae

Taxobox
name = Galegeae

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image_width = 240px
image_caption = "Glycyrrhiza glabra"
regnum = Plantae
divisio = Magnoliophyta
classis = Magnoliopsida
ordo = Fabales
familia = Fabaceae
subfamilia = Faboideae
tribus = Galegeae
tribus_authority = (Bronn) Torr. & Gray
subdivision_ranks = Genera
subdivision = "See text"

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. The type genus is "Galega". [cite book | author = Dassanayake, M D, "et al". | date = 1980 | title = A Revised Handbook to the Flora of Ceylon | publisher = Taylor & Francis | id = ISBN 9061910641 | pages = 109]

Classification

The tribe Galegeae contains roughly twenty genera. [cite web | url = http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/family.pl?1574 | title = GRIN Taxonomy for Plants; tribe Galegeae | accessdate = 2007-09-09 | publisher = Germplasm Resources Information Network] Indigofereae and Psoraleeae were once included as subtribes, but have since been elevated as distinct tribes. [cite journal | author = Rydberg, P A | year = 1923
month = Nov | title = Genera of North American Fabaceae. I. Tribe Galegeae | journal = American Journal of Botany | volume = 10 | issue = 9 | pages = 485 | doi = 10.2307/2446388]

* Subtribe Alhagiinae
** "Alhagi" Gagnebin
* Subtribe Astragalinae
** "Astragalus" L.
** "Biserrula" L.
** "Calophaca" Fisch. ex DC.
** "Caragana" Fabr.
** "Chesneya" Lindl. ex Endl.
** "Gueldenstaedtia" Fisch.
** "Halimodendron" Fisch. ex DC.
** "Oxytropis" DC.
** "Spongiocarpella" Yakovlev & N. Ulziykh.
* Subtribe Coluteinae
** "Clianthus" Sol. ex Lindl.
** "Colutea" L.
** "Eremosparton" Fisch. & C.A.Mey.
** "Lessertia" DC.
** "Oreophysa" (Bunge ex Boiss.) Bornm.
** "Smirnowia" Bunge
** "Sphaerophysa" DC.
** "Swainsona" Salisb.
* Subtribe Galeginae
** "Galega" L.
* Subtribe Glycyrrhizinae
** "Glycyrrhiza" L.

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