| Galegeae | |
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| Galega officinalis | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Fabales |
| Family: | Fabaceae |
| Subfamily: | Faboideae |
| Clade: | Meso-Papilionoideae |
| Clade: | Non-protein amino acid-accumulating clade |
| Clade: | Hologalegina |
| Clade: | Inverted repeat-lacking clade |
| Tribe: | Galegeae (Bronn) Torr. & Gray |
| Type genus | |
| Galega L. | |
| Synonyms | |
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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. [1] Recent molecular phylogenetic work has determined that tribe Galegeae is paraphyletic, and that its members are scattered throughout the IR-lacking clade. [2]
The tribe Galegeae contains roughly twenty genera. [3] Indigofereae and Psoraleeae were once included as subtribes, but have since been elevated as distinct tribes. [4]
Carmichaelinae Clade [5]
Coluteinae Clade [5]
Molecular phylogenetic analysis have found tribe Galegeae to be polyphyletic, [9] with the three subtribes recovered in different part of the inverted repeat-lacking clade. [10] [11]