Galactia
{{Short description|Genus of legumes}}
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{{automatic taxobox
|image = Galactia striata.jpg
|image_caption = Galactia striata
| taxon = Galactia
| authority = P.Browne (1756)
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision = About 100. See text.
|synonyms=
- Galaction {{small|St.-Lag. (1880)}}
- Heterocarpaea {{small|Scheele (1848)}}
- Leucodyction {{small|Dalzell (1850)}}
- Odonia {{small|Bertol. (1822)}}
- Sweetia {{small|DC. (1825), nom. rej.}}
|synonyms_ref = [https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:30002203-2 Galactia P.Browne]. Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 8 August 2023.
}}
Galactia is a genus of plants in the legume family (Fabaceae). It belongs to the subfamily Faboideae and tribe Diocleae{{cite journal |vauthors=de Queiroz LP, Pastore JF, Cardoso D, Snak C, ((de C Lima AL)), Gagnon E, Vatanparast M, Holland AE, Egan AN | year = 2015 | title = A multilocus phylogenetic analysis reveals the monophyly of a recircumscribed papilionoid legume tribe Diocleae with well-supported generic relationships | journal = Mol Phylogenet Evol | volume = 90 | pages = 1–19 | doi = 10.1016/j.ympev.2015.04.016 | pmid = 25934529 | bibcode = 2015MolPE..90....1D }} They do not have an unambiguous common name, being commonly called milk peas, beach peas or wild peas. They are perennial herbs or subshrubs with prostrate, climbing, or erect forms.
The genus contains 99 species which range through the Americas from New York and Arizona to northern Argentina, in tropical Africa and Madagascar, in south and southeast Asia, southern China, and Japan, and in the Philippines, eastern Indonesia, New Guinea, and Australia.
Typical habitats include seasonally-dry tropical and subtropical forest margins, thickets, woodlands, wooded grasslands, grasslands, and rocky shrublands.
Species
99 species are currently accepted.
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- Galactia acapulcensis {{small|Rose}}
- Galactia acunana {{small|Borhidi & O.Muñiz}}
- Galactia albiflora {{small|Urb.}}
- Galactia anisopoda {{small|Ohwi}}
- Galactia anomala Lundell{{cite web|title=Glactica anomala |url=http://www.biodiversity.bz/find/specimens/profile.phtml?dcid=61120 |work=Biodiversity and Environmental Resource Data System of Belize |publisher=BERDS & BTFS |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110722140147/http://www.biodiversity.bz/find/specimens/profile.phtml?dcid=61120 |archive-date=2011-07-22 }}
- Galactia argentea {{small|Brandegee}}
- Galactia argentifolia {{small|S.Moore}}
- Galactia augusti {{small|Harms}}
- Galactia austrofloridensis {{small|A.R.Franck}}
- Galactia bahamensis {{small|Urb.}}
- Galactia benthamiana {{small|Micheli}}
- Galactia brachyodon {{small|Griseb.}}
- Galactia buchii {{small|Urb.}}
- Galactia burkartii {{small|Fortunato}}
- Galactia caimitensis {{small|Urb. & Ekman}}
- Galactia canescens {{small|Benth.}}
- Galactia carnea {{small|Urb. & Ekman}}
- Galactia combsii {{small|Urb.}}
- Galactia cordifolia {{small|Ceolin & Miotto}}
- Galactia cuneata {{small|Alain}}
- Galactia cuspidata {{small|Teijsm. & Binn.}}
- Galactia densiflora {{small|M.T.Germán, R.Sousa & M.Sousa}}
- Galactia dictyophylla {{small|Urb.}}
- Galactia dimorphophylla {{small|Fortunato, Sede & Luckow}}
- Galactia dubia {{small|DC.}}
- Galactia earlei {{small|Britton}}
- Galactia eggersii {{small|Urb.}}
- Galactia elliottii {{small|Nutt.}}
- Galactia elliptifoliola {{small|Merr.}}
- Galactia erecta {{small|(Walter) Vail}}
- Galactia excisa {{small|Urb. & Ekman}}
- Galactia fiebrigiana {{small|Burkart}}
- Galactia filiformis {{small|(Jacq.) Benth.}}
- Galactia floridana {{small|Torr. & A.Gray}}
- Galactia fuertesii {{small|Urb.}}
- Galactia galactioides {{small|(Griseb.) Hitchc.}}
- Galactia glaucescens {{small|Kunth}}
- Galactia glaucophylla {{small|Harms}}
- Galactia glomerata {{small|Urb.}}
- Galactia herradurensis {{small|Urb.}}
- Galactia heterophylla {{small|A.Gray}}
- Galactia incana {{small|(Rose) Standl.}}
- Galactia isopoda {{small|Urb.}}
- Galactia jenningsii {{small|Britton}}
- Galactia joselyniae {{small|G.L.Nesom}}
- Galactia jussiaeana {{small|Kunth}}
- Galactia killipiana {{small|J.F.Macbr.}}
- Galactia laotica {{small|Thuan}}
- Galactia latifolia {{small|(Baker) Thuan}}
- Galactia latisiliqua {{small|Desv.}}
- Galactia laxifolia {{small|Urb.}}
- Galactia lignosa {{small|(Turpin ex Pers.) Urb.}}
- Galactia lindenii {{small|Burkart}}
- Galactia lockhartii {{small|Griseb.}}
- Galactia longiflora {{small|Arn.}}
- Galactia longifolia {{small|(Jacq.) Benth.}}
- Galactia longipes {{small|Gagnep.}}
- Galactia maisiana {{small|Alain}}
- Galactia megalophylla (F.Muell.){{cite web|title=Leguminosae Galactia megalophylla F.Muell.|url=http://www.ipni.org/ipni/idPlantNameSearch.do?id=495477-1|work=International Plant Names Index|publisher=Plant Names Project|access-date=22 May 2011}} Leguminosae is an older name for Fabaceae, thus Leguminosae Galactia megalophylla
- Galactia microphylla {{small|(Chapm.) H.J.Rogers ex Isely}}
- Galactia minarum {{small|Standl. & Steyerm.}}
- Galactia minutiflora {{small|Urb.}}
- Galactia mollis Michx.{{cite web |title=ITIS Standard Report Page: Galactia mollis |url=https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=26695#null |website=www.itis.gov |access-date=14 May 2019}}
- Galactia monophylla {{small|Griseb.}}
- Galactia muelleri {{small|Benth.}}
- Galactia multiflora {{small|B.L.Rob.}}
- Galactia nummularia {{small|Urb.}}
- Galactia ocoana {{small|Urb. & Ekman}}
- Galactia parvifolia {{small|A.Rich.}}
- Galactia pendula {{small|Pers.}}
- Galactia pinetorum {{small|Small}}
- Galactia purshii {{small|Desv.}}
- Galactia regularis (L.) Britton, Sterns & Poggenb. (= G. volubilis){{cite web|title=Galactia regularis|url=http://www.ildis.org/LegumeWeb?version~10.01&LegumeWeb&tno~8335&genus~Galactia&species~volubilis|work=LEGUMEWEB|publisher=International Legume Database & Information Service|access-date=22 May 2011}}
- Galactia remansoana {{small|Harms}}
- Galactia revoluta {{small|Urb.}}
- Galactia rotundata {{small|Alain}}
- Galactia rubra {{small|(Jacq.) Urb.}}
- Galactia sangsterae {{small|Proctor}}
- Galactia savannarum {{small|Britton}}
- Galactia schomburgkii {{small|Urb.}}
- Galactia serpentina {{small|G.L.Nesom}}
- Galactia shumbae {{small|Harms}}
- Galactia simaoensis {{small|Y.Y.Qian}}
- Galactia smallii {{small|H.J.Rogers ex A.Herndon}}
- Galactia sparsiflora {{small|Standl. & Steyerm.}}
- Galactia spiciformis {{small|Torr. & A.Gray}}
- Galactia striata (Jacq.) Urb.{{cite web|title=Galactia striata|url=https://www.uniprot.org/taxonomy/100146|work=Universal Protein Resource|publisher=UniProt Consortium|access-date=22 May 2011}}
- Galactia striata var. crassirachis {{small|Burkart}}
- Galactia striata var. striata
- Galactia striata var. villosa (Wight & Arn.) Verdc. (= G. tenuiflora var. villosa)Hyde, M.A. & Wursten, B. (2011). Flora of Zimbabwe: Species information: Galactia striata var. villosa.
http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=131570, retrieved 22 May 2011
- Galactia suberecta {{small|Britton}}
- Galactia synandra {{small|Urb.}}
- Galactia tashiroi {{small|Maxim.}}
- Galactia tenuiflora (Willd.) Wight & Arn.{{cite web|title=Galactia tenuiflora (Willd.) Wight & Arn.|url=http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Galactia~tenuiflora|work=New South Wales Flora Online|publisher=The Royal Botanic Gardens & Domain Trust|access-date=22 May 2011}}
- Galactia tenuiflora var. lucida
- Galactia texana {{small|(Scheele) A.Gray}}
- Galactia trinitensis {{small|Urb.}}
- Galactia tuberosa {{small|DC.}}
- Galactia uniflora {{small|Urb.}}
- Galactia vietnamensis {{small|Thuan}}
- Galactia volubilis {{small|(L.) Britton}}
- Galactia watsoniana {{small|W.C.Holmes & Singhurst}}
- Galactia weddelliana {{small|Benth.}}
- Galactia wrightii {{small|A.Gray}}
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References
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