| Polygala kuriensis | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Fabales |
| Family: | Polygalaceae |
| Genus: | Polygala |
| Species: | P. kuriensis |
| Binomial name | |
| Polygala kuriensis | |
Polygala kuriensis is a species of plant in the family Polygalaceae. It is endemic to the island of Abd al Kuri in Yemen's Socotra Archipelago. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry shrubland and rocky areas. [1]
Fabales is an order of flowering plants included in the rosid group of the eudicots in the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group II classification system. In the APG II circumscription, this order includes the families Fabaceae or legumes, Quillajaceae, Polygalaceae or milkworts, and Surianaceae. Under the Cronquist system and some other plant classification systems, the order Fabales contains only the family Fabaceae. In the classification system of Dahlgren the Fabales were in the superorder Fabiflorae with three families corresponding to the subfamilies of Fabaceae in APG II. The other families treated in the Fabales by the APG II classification were placed in separate orders by Cronquist, the Polygalaceae within its own order, the Polygalales, and the Quillajaceae and Surianaceae within the Rosales.
The Polygalaceae or the milkwort family are made up of flowering plants in the order Fabales. They have a near-cosmopolitan range, with about 27 genera and ca. 900 known species of herbs, shrubs and trees. Over half of the species are in one genus, Polygala, the milkworts.
Polygala is a large genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Polygalaceae. They are commonly known as milkworts or snakeroots. The genus is distributed widely throughout much of the world in temperate zones and the tropics. The genus name Polygala comes from the ancient Greek "much milk", as the plant was thought to increase milk yields in cattle.
Polygala vulgaris, known as the common milkwort, is a herbaceous perennial plant of the genus Polygala in the family Polygalaceae.
Polygaloides paucifolia, synonym Polygala paucifolia, known as gaywings or fringed polygala, is a perennial plant of the family Polygalaceae.
Euphorbia kuriensis is a species of plant in the family Euphorbiaceae. It is endemic to Abd al Kuri in the Socotra Archipelago of Yemen. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry shrubland.
Gymnocarpos kuriensis is a species of plant in the family Caryophyllaceae. It is endemic to the islands of Socotra and Abd al Kuri in Yemen. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, and rocky areas.
Polycarpaea kuriensis is a species of plant in the family Caryophyllaceae. It is endemic to Yemen. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry shrubland and rocky areas.
Polygala helenae is a species of flowering plant in the family Polygalaceae. It is endemic to Greece. Its natural habitat is Mediterranean-type shrubby vegetation. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Senega quitensis is a species of plant in the family Polygalaceae. It is endemic to Ecuador.
Polygala sinisica is a species of plant in the family Polygalaceae. It is endemic to Italy.
Portulaca kuriensis is a species of flowering plant in the purslane family, Portulacaceae, that is endemic to Yemen. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry shrubland and rocky areas.
Ruellia kuriensis is a species of plant in the family Acanthaceae. It is a subshrub endemic to the island of Abd al Kuri in the Socotra archipelago off the coast of northeastern Africa, which is politically part of Yemen. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry shrubland.
Phytometra rhodarialis, the pink-bordered yellow, is a moth of the family Erebidae. The species was first described by Francis Walker in 1859. It is found from southern Ontario in Canada and Missouri and New Hampshire in the United States, south to Florida and Texas in the United States, possibly only as stray northward.
Senega lewtonii is a rare species of flowering plant in the milkwort family known by the common name Lewton's polygala, or Lewton's milkwort. It is endemic to Florida in the United States, where it is limited to the central ridge of the peninsula. There are about 49 occurrences of the plant remaining. Most occurrences contain very few plants. The species is threatened by the loss and degradation of its habitat. This is a federally listed endangered species of the United States.
Senega officinalis is a species of flowering plant in the milkwort family, Polygalaceae. It is native to North America, where it is found in southern Canada and the central and eastern United States. Its common names include Seneca snakeroot, senega snakeroot, senegaroot, rattlesnake root, and mountain flax. Its genus name honors the Seneca people, a Native American group who used the plant to treat snakebite.
Polygala myrtifolia, the myrtle-leaf milkwort, is an evergreen 2–4 m tall South African shrub or small tree found along the southern and south-eastern coasts, from near Clanwilliam in the Western Cape to KwaZulu-Natal. It is a fast-growing pioneer plant, a typical fynbos component, and may be found on dunes, rocky places, along forest margins, beside streams, and in open grassland. It belongs to the milkwort family of Polygalaceae.
Polygala comosa is a species of flowering plant in the family Polygalaceae. It is native to temperate Eurasia, including most of Europe, Turkey, the Caucasus, Siberia, parts of Central Asia, Xinjiang, and Mongolia.
Polygala francisci is a species of plant in the family Polygalaceae. It is endemic to the edges of woodlands in southern Mozambique at elevations of 20 to 60 metres above sea level. The plant is a perennial. It has violet flowers in 1.5 centimetre racemes containing 1 to 5 of them. Each flower has 8 stamens. In 2019, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) classified the species as vulnerable on its Red List due to deforestation and agriculture. According to the IUCN, much of the area inhabited by the plant is already used for or has potential to be used for agriculture.
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