Galactia: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Magnoliopsida
- Order
- Fabales
- Family
- Fabaceae
- Genus
- Galactia
- Species
- Scientific Name
- Galactia
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Galactia
Galactia is a genus of plants in the legume family (Fabaceae). It belongs to the subfamily Faboideae and tribe Diocleae 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.
...Galactia in languages:
- Chinese
- 乳豆屬
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
Child Taxa
- Galactia acapulcensis
- Galactia albiflora
- Galactia anomala
- Galactia argentea
- Galactia argentifolia
- Galactia augusti
- Galactia australis
- Galactia austrofloridensis
- Galactia benthamiana
- Galactia boavista
- Galactia brachypoda
- Galactia brachystachys
- Galactia canescens
- Galactia combsii
- Galactia crassifolia
- Galactia densiflora
- Galactia douradensis
- Galactia dubia
- Galactia eggersii
- Galactia elliottii
- Galactia erecta
- Galactia fasciculata
- Galactia filiformis
- Galactia floridana
- Galactia glabella
- Galactia glaucescens
- Galactia glaucophylla
- Galactia gracillima
- Galactia grewiifolia
- Galactia grisebachii
- Galactia heterophylla
- Galactia incana
- Galactia jenningsii
- Galactia joselyniae
- Galactia jussiaeana
- Galactia lamprophylla
- Galactia latisiliqua
- Galactia lindenii
- Galactia lockhartii
- Galactia longiflora
- Galactia longifolia
- Galactia marginalis
- Galactia martioides
- Galactia microphylla
- Galactia mollis
- Galactia multiflora
- Galactia nummularia
- Galactia parvifolia
- Galactia peduncularis
- Galactia pinetorum
- Galactia pretiosa
- Galactia purshii
- Galactia regularis
- Galactia rubra
- Galactia rudolphioides
- Galactia smallii
- Galactia spiciformis
- Galactia stereophylla
- Galactia striata
- Galactia tashiroi
- Galactia tenuiflora
- Galactia texana
- Galactia vietnamensis
- Galactia volubilis
- Galactia watsoniana
- Galactia wrightii































































































































































