Resedaceae is a family of generally
herbaceousA herbaceous plant is a plant that has leaves and stems that die down at the end of the growing season to the soil level. They have no persistent woody stem above ground...
dicotyledonDicotyledons, or "dicots", is a name for a group of flowering plants whose seed typically has two embryonic leaves or cotyledons. There are around 199,350 species within this group...
ous plants comprising some 70 species in six genera:
- Caylusea
The plant genus Caylusea is a small group of plants found in parts of Africa and India.Caylusea abyssinica is eaten as a vegetable.-Selected species :* Caylusea abyssinica Fisch. & C.A.Mey.* Caylusea canescens Webb...
- Ochradenus
Ochradenus is a genus of plant in family Resedaceae. It contains the following species :* Ochradenus socotranus, A.G.Mill....
- Oligomeris
- Randonia
- Reseda
- Sesamoides
Recent molecular studies suggest that
Oligomeris,
Randonia and
Ochradenus all arose from within the ranks of
Reseda.
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Resedaceae is a family of generally
herbaceousA herbaceous plant is a plant that has leaves and stems that die down at the end of the growing season to the soil level. They have no persistent woody stem above ground...
dicotyledonDicotyledons, or "dicots", is a name for a group of flowering plants whose seed typically has two embryonic leaves or cotyledons. There are around 199,350 species within this group...
ous plants comprising some 70 species in six genera:
- Caylusea
The plant genus Caylusea is a small group of plants found in parts of Africa and India.Caylusea abyssinica is eaten as a vegetable.-Selected species :* Caylusea abyssinica Fisch. & C.A.Mey.* Caylusea canescens Webb...
- Ochradenus
Ochradenus is a genus of plant in family Resedaceae. It contains the following species :* Ochradenus socotranus, A.G.Mill....
- Oligomeris
- Randonia
- Reseda
- Sesamoides
Recent molecular studies suggest that
Oligomeris,
Randonia and
Ochradenus all arose from within the ranks of
Reseda. This would imply that only three genera should be recognised, although as yet no nomenclatural changes have been made.
The family includes
annualsAn annual plant is a plant that usually germinates, flowers, and dies in a year or season. True annuals will only live longer than a year if they are prevented from setting seed...
,
biennialsA biennial plant is a flowering plant that takes two years to complete its biological lifecycle. In the first year the plant grows leaves, stems, and roots , then it enters a period of dormancy over the colder months. Usually the stem remains very short and the leaves are low to the ground, forming...
and
perennialsA perennial plant or perennial is a plant that lives for more than two years. When used by gardeners or horticulturalists, this term applies specifically to perennial herbaceous plants...
and is distributed in
temperateIn geography, temperate or tepid latitudes of the globe lie between the tropics and the polar circles. The changes in these regions between summer and winter are generally mild, rather than extreme hot or cold. But in continental areas, such as central North America the variations between summer...
to sub-tropical regions of the
EuropeEurope is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally divided from Asia to its east by the water divide of the Ural Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian Sea, the Caucasus Mountains , and the Black Sea to the southeast...
, western
AsiaAsia is the world's largest and most populous continent, located in the eastern and northern hemispheres. It covers 8.6% of the earth's total surface area and with approximately 4 billion people, it hosts 60% of the world's current human population.Asia is traditionally defined as part of the...
, the
Middle EastThe Middle East is a region that spans southwestern Asia, southeastern Europe, and northeastern Africa. It has no clear boundaries, often used as a synonym to Near East, in opposition to Far East...
,
North AmericaNorth America is the northern continent of the Americas, situated in the Earth's northern hemisphere and in the western hemisphere. It is bordered on the north by the Arctic Ocean, on the east by the North Atlantic Ocean, on the southeast by the Caribbean Sea, and on the west by the North Pacific...
, and
South AfricaThe Republic of South Africa is a country located at the southern tip of Africa, with a coastline on the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. To the north lie Namibia, Botswana and Zimbabwe, to the east are Mozambique and Swaziland, while Lesotho is an independent country surrounded by South Africa.Modern...
.
Resedaceae was placed under the
Cronquist systemA system of plant taxonomy, the Cronquist system is a scheme for the classification of flowering plants . This system was developed by Arthur Cronquist in his texts An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants and The Evolution and Classification of Flowering Plants .Cronquist's...
in the order
CapparalesCapparales is a botanical name of an order of flowering plants. It was used in the Cronquist system for an order in subclass Dilleniidae and in the Kubitzki system, nowadays...
. The
APG II systemThe Angiosperm Phylogeny Group, or APG, refers to two international groups of systematic botanists who came together to try to establish a consensus view of the taxonomy of flowering plants that would reflect new knowledge in angiosperm relationships based upon molecular systematics studies...
places it in the order
BrassicalesThe Brassicales are an order of flowering plants, belonging to the eurosids II group of dicotyledons under the APG II system. One character common to many members of the order is the production of glucosinolate compounds...
.