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The genus Galactia is in the family Leguminosae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Galactia

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See "Status", "Confidence level", "Source" for definitions.

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Galactia acapulcensis Rose	Accepted		ILDIS
Galactia albiflora Urb.	Accepted		ILDIS
Galactia anomala Lundell	Accepted		ILDIS
Galactia argentea Brandegee	Accepted		ILDIS
Galactia argentifolia S.Moore	Accepted		ILDIS
Galactia augustii Harms	Accepted		ILDIS
Galactia benthamiana Micheli	Accepted		ILDIS
Galactia boavista (Vell.) Burkart	Accepted		ILDIS
Galactia brachyodon Griseb.	Accepted		ILDIS
Galactia brachypoda Torr. & A.Gray	Accepted		ILDIS
Galactia brachystachys Benth.	Accepted		ILDIS
Galactia brevipes Small	Accepted		ILDIS
Galactia broussonetii (Balb.) Colla	Accepted		TRO
Galactia bullata (Benth.) Taub.	Accepted		ILDIS
Galactia burkartii Fortunato	Accepted		TRO
Galactia canescens Benth.	Accepted		ILDIS
Galactia combsii Urb.	Accepted		ILDIS
Galactia crassifolia (Benth.) Taub.	Accepted		ILDIS
Galactia cuneata Alain	Accepted		ILDIS
Galactia decumbens Hoehne	Accepted		ILDIS
Galactia densiflora German & M.Sousa	Accepted		ILDIS
Galactia dictyophylla Urb.	Accepted		ILDIS
Galactia dimorpha Burkart	Accepted		ILDIS
Galactia discolor Donn.Sm.	Accepted		ILDIS
Galactia diversifolia (Benth.) Hoehne	Accepted		TRO
Galactia douradensis Taub.	Accepted		ILDIS
Galactia dubia DC.	Accepted		ILDIS
Galactia earlei Britton	Accepted		ILDIS
Galactia eggersii Urb.	Accepted		ILDIS
Galactia elliottii Nutt.	Accepted		ILDIS
Galactia erecta Vail	Accepted		ILDIS
Galactia eriosematoides Harms	Accepted		ILDIS
Galactia fasciculata Hassl.	Accepted		ILDIS
Galactia fiebrigiana Burkart	Accepted		ILDIS
Galactia filiformis (Jacq.) Benth.	Accepted		ILDIS
Galactia floridana Torr. & A.Gray	Accepted		ILDIS
Galactia galactia (L.) Vail	Accepted		TRO
Galactia galactioides (Griseb.) Hitchc.	Accepted		ILDIS
Galactia glabella Michx.	Accepted		ILDIS
Galactia glaucescens Kunth	Accepted		ILDIS
Galactia glaucophylla Kuntze	Accepted		ILDIS
Galactia gracillima Benth.	Accepted		ILDIS
Galactia grayi Vail	Accepted		ILDIS
Galactia grewiifolia (Benth.) Taub.	Accepted		ILDIS
Galactia heringeri Burkart	Accepted		ILDIS
Galactia herradurensis Urb.	Accepted		ILDIS
Galactia hoehnei Burkart	Accepted		ILDIS
Galactia incana (Rose) Standl.	Accepted		ILDIS
Galactia irwinii Cowan	Accepted		ILDIS
Galactia isopoda Urb.	Accepted		ILDIS
Galactia jenningsii Britton	Accepted		ILDIS
Galactia jussiaeana Kunth	Accepted		ILDIS
Galactia killipiana J.F.Macbr.	Accepted		ILDIS
Galactia lamprophylla Harms	Accepted		ILDIS
Galactia laotica Thuan	Accepted		ILDIS
Galactia latifolia (Baker) Thuan	Accepted		ILDIS
Galactia latisiliqua Desv.	Accepted		ILDIS
Galactia laxiflora Urb.	Accepted		ILDIS
Galactia lignosa (Turpin ex Pers.) Urb.	Accepted		TRO
Galactia lindenii Burkart	Accepted		ILDIS
Galactia lockhartii Griseb.	Accepted		ILDIS
Galactia longiflora Arn.	Accepted		ILDIS
Galactia longifolia (Jacq.) Benth.	Accepted		ILDIS
Galactia longipes Gagnep.	Accepted		ILDIS
Galactia maisiana Alain	Accepted		ILDIS
Galactia marginalis Benth.	Accepted		ILDIS
Galactia martii DC.	Accepted		ILDIS
Galactia martioides Burkart	Accepted		ILDIS
Galactia megalophylla (F.Muell.) J.H.Willis	Accepted		ILDIS
Galactia mexicana Spreng.	Accepted		TRO
Galactia microphylla (Chapman) Hall & Ward	Accepted		ILDIS
Galactia minor W.H.Duncan	Accepted		ILDIS
Galactia minutifolia Urb.	Accepted		ILDIS
Galactia mississippiensis (Vail) Rydb.	Accepted		TRO
Galactia mollis Michx.	Accepted		ILDIS
Galactia monophylla Griseb.	Accepted		ILDIS
Galactia muelleri Benth.	Accepted		ILDIS
Galactia multiflora Robinson	Accepted		ILDIS
Galactia nana Burkart	Accepted		ILDIS
Galactia neesii DC.	Accepted		ILDIS
Galactia nummularia Urb.	Accepted		ILDIS
Galactia parvifolia A.Rich.	Accepted		ILDIS
Galactia peduncularis (Benth.) Taub.	Accepted		ILDIS
Galactia pendula Pers.	Accepted		ILDIS
Galactia pinetorum Small	Accepted		ILDIS
Galactia pretiosa Burkart	Accepted		ILDIS
Galactia prostrata Benth.	Accepted		ILDIS
Galactia regularis (L.) Britton & al.	Accepted		ILDIS
Galactia remansoana Harms	Accepted		ILDIS
Galactia revoluta Urb.	Accepted		ILDIS
Galactia rotundata Alain	Accepted		ILDIS
Galactia rubra (Jacq.) Urb.	Accepted		ILDIS
Galactia rudolphioides (Griseb.) Benth. & Hook.f.	Accepted		ILDIS
Galactia rugosa (Benth.) S. Moore	Accepted		TRO
Galactia sangsterae Proctor	Accepted		ILDIS
Galactia savannarum Britton	Accepted		ILDIS
Galactia shumbae Harms	Accepted		ILDIS
Galactia smallii A.Herndon	Accepted		ILDIS
Galactia sparsiflora Standl. & Steyerm.	Accepted		ILDIS
Galactia spiciformis Torr. & A.Gray	Accepted		ILDIS
Galactia stereophylla Harms	Accepted		ILDIS
Galactia striata (Jacq.) Urb.	Accepted		ILDIS
Galactia suberecta Britton	Accepted		ILDIS
Galactia tashiroi Maxim.	Accepted		ILDIS
Galactia tenuiflora (Willd.) Wight & Arn.	Accepted		ILDIS
Galactia tephrodes A. Gray	Accepted		TRO
Galactia texana (Scheele) A.Gray	Accepted		ILDIS
Galactia uniflora Urb.	Accepted		ILDIS
Galactia vietnamensis Thuan	Accepted		ILDIS
Galactia viridiflora (Rose) Standl.	Accepted		ILDIS
Galactia weddelliana Benth.	Accepted		ILDIS
Galactia wrightii A.Gray	Accepted		ILDIS

Statistics

The Plant List includes 244 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Galactia. Of these 112 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 50 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Galactia. We do not intend The Plant List to be complete for names of infraspecific rank. These are primarily included because names of species rank are synonyms of accepted infraspecific names.

Species names

The status of the 244 species names for the genus Galactia recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	112	45.9%
◕	Synonym	90	36.9%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	42	17.2%

All names

The status of the 294 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Galactia recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	119	40.5%
◕	Synonym	132	44.9%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	43	14.6%

Of these names,

• 1 are recorded as a spelling variant

A further 1 name records indicate where names have been misapplied.

The confidence with which the status of the 244 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Galactia, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	102	71	0	0	173	70.9%
	Medium confidence	9	18	0	0	27	11.1%
	Low confidence	1	1	0	42	44	18.0%

The source of the species name record found in The Plant List for the genus Galactia, are as follows: