Author:
Jan Scholten
Book:
Qjurious
Type:
Info
Chapter:
3-644.51.00
Polygalaceae
English: Milkwort family.
German: Kreuzblumengewächse.
Dutch: Vleugeltjesbloemenfamilie.
Botany: ± 17 genera; ± 1000 species; herbs, shrubs and trees; near-cosmopolitan: over half of the species are in one genus, Polygala, the milkworts.
Content: triterpenoid saponins, polygalasaponins; methyl salicylate
Taxonomy
Polygalaceae is one of the 3 Families in Fabales in the Apg3 classification. Polygalaceae is including the families Diclidantheraceae, Moutabeaceae and Xanthophyllaceae.
In the Plant theory Polygalaceae is placed in Subphase 2.
Tribes
Tribe Carpolobieae: Atroxima; Carpolobia.
Tribe Moutabeae Chodat; Balgoya; Barnhartia; Diclidanthera; Eriandra; Moutabea.
Tribe Polygaleae: Chodat; Acanthocladus; Ancylotropis; Badiera; Bredemeyera; Comesperma; Epirixanthes; Monnina; Muraltia; Polygala; Salomonia; Securidaca.
Tribe Xanthophylleae: Chodat; Xanthophyllum.
Uncertain placed: Monrosia; Nylandtia; †Paleosecuridaca.
Polygalaceae
Tribes: Carpolobieae, Moutabeae, Polygaleae, Xanthophylleae
Genera: Acanthocladus, Asemeia, Atroxima, Badiera, Balgoya, Barnhartia, Bredemeyera, Caamembeca, Carpolobia, Comesperma, Diclidanthera, Epirixanthes, Eriandra, Gymnospora, Hebecarpa, Heterosamara, Monnina, Moutabea, Muraltia, Nylandtia, Phlebotaenia, Polygala, Polygaloides, Rhinotropis, Salomonia, Securidaca, Xanthophyllum