Galega officinalis

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Fabales
Classification System: APG IV Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Plantae Cladus: Angiosperms Cladus: Eudicots Cladus: Core eudicots Cladus: Rosids Cladus: Eurosids I Ordo: Fabales

Familia: Fabaceae
Subfamilia: Faboideae
Tribus: Galegeae
Genus: Galega
Sectio: G. sect. Galega
Species:

Galega officinalis L. (1753)

Homotypic
- Galega vulgaris Lam., Fl. Franç. (Lamarck) 2: 654 (1773), nom. illeg.

Heterotypic
- Accorombona tricolor (Hook.) Benth. ex Walp., Repert. vol. 1, 672 (1842).
- Callotropis tricolor (Hook.) G.Don, Gen. Hist., 2: 228 (1832).
- Galega bicolor Boiss. & Hausskn. ex Regel, Suppl. Ind. Sem. Hort. Petrop (1866): 37 (1868).
- Galega coronilloides Freyn & Sint., Oesterr. Bot. Z., 43: 413 (1893).
- Galega patula Steven, Bull. Soc. Imp. Naturalistes Moscou 29(2): 140 (1856).
- Galega persica Pers., Syn. Pl. 2: 330 (1807).
- Galega tricolor Hook., Exotic Fl., 3 (1825).
- Tephrosia tricolor (Hook.) Sweet

Native distribution areas:

Continental: Europe
- Regional: Southeastern Europe
  - Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Italy, Krym, Romania, South European Russi
- Regional: Middle Europe
  - Austria, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Turkey-in-Europe, Ukraine, Yugoslavia
- Regional: Southwestern Europe
  - France, Spain
Continental: Asia-Temperate
- Regional: Western Asia
  - East Aegean Is., Iran, Lebanon-Syria, North Caucasus, Transcaucasus, Turkey
- Regional: Central Asia
  - Pakistan
Continental: South America
- Regional: Southern South America
  - Uruguay
- Introduced into:
  - Algeria, Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Argentina South, Baltic States, Belgium, Central European Rus, Chile Central, Chile North, Colorado, Ecuador, Great Britain, Morocco, New York, New Zealand North, Peru, Portugal, Switzerland, Zaïre

Linnaeus, C. 1753. Species plantarum, exhibentes plantas rite cognitas, ad genera relatas, cum differentiis specificis, nominibus trivialibus, synonymis selectis, locis natalibus, secundum systema sexuale digestas. Tomus II. Pp. 561–1200, [1–30, index], [1, err.]. Impensis Laurentii Salvii, Holmiae [Stockholm]. BHL Reference page. : 714.

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