Galega
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Vernacular names of plants within the Genus Galega

goat's rue
professor-weed

Hierarchical position of the Genus Galega

   Regnum  Plantae
common name: The plant kingdom
  
   Divisio  Magnoliophyta Cronquist
syn. Angiospermophyta / Anthophyta
pub. Takht. & Zimmerm. ex Reveal, Phytologia 79: 70. 29 Apr 1996.
common name: angiosperms, flowering plants
  
   Subdivisio  Magnoliophytina Frohne & U. Jensen ex Reveal
pub. Phytologia 79: 70. 29 Apr 1996.
common name: Angiosperms
  
   Classis  Rosopsida Batsch
pub. Dispos. Gen. Pl. Jenens.: 28. 1788.
  
   Subclassis  Rosidae Takht.
pub. Sist. Filog. Cvetk. Rast.: 264. Jan-Mar 1967.
  
   SuperOrdo  Fabanae R. Dahlgren ex Reveal
pub. Phytologia 74: 179. 25 Mar 1993.
  
   Ordo  Fabales Bromhead
pub. Edinburgh New Philos. J. 25: 126. Jul 1838.
common name: legumes
  
   Familia  Fabaceae Lindl.
pub. Intr. Nat. Syst. Bot., ed. 2: 148. Jul 1836.
common name: Leguminosae
  
   Subfamilia  Galegoideae Schimper in Strasb.
pub. Lehrb. Bot.: 480. Oct 1894.
  
   Tribus  Galegeae (Bronn) Dumort.
pub. Fl. Belg.: 101. 1827.
  
   Subtribus  Galeginae Bronn
pub. Form. Pl. Legumin.: 127, 134. 1822.
  
   Genus  Galega L.
pub. (1753)
common name: professor-weed
  

Named members of the Genus Galega

1
   Species  caribaea Jacq.
syn. Coursetia caribaea var. caribaea
2
   Species  florida F.G. Dietr.
syn. Tephrosia florida
3
   Species  officinalis L.
common name: professor-weed, goat's rue
  
4
   Species  spicata Walt.
syn. Tephrosia spicata

Individual specimen entries are published in the sample database supplied with The Compleat Botanica for species or varieties of this supra-generic taxon.

Additional information is available in the commercial version of The Compleat Botanica software for species with this symbol.

 

For a description of the methodology followed in establishing this hierarchy see the note Nomenclature used in The Compleat Botanica.

 

Last reviewed October 31, 2004   

 

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