Galactia

{{Short description|Genus of legumes}}

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|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.

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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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http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=131570, retrieved 22 May 2011

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References

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Category:Diocleae

Category:Fabaceae genera

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