Resedaceae

Life-forms

Classification System: APG IV

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Cladus: Angiosperms
Cladus: Eudicots
Cladus: Core eudicots
Cladus: Rosids
Cladus: Eurosids II
Ordo: Brassicales

Familia: Resedaceae
Genera: Borthwickia – Caylusea – Forchhammeria – Ochradenus – Ochradiscus – Oligomeris – Randonia – Reseda – Sesamoides – Stixis – Tirania

Name

Resedaceae Martinov, Tekhno-Bot. Slovar 541. (1820), nom. cons.

Type genus: Reseda L., Sp. Pl. 1: 448. (1753)

Synonyms

Heterotypic
Borthwickiaceae J.X.Su & Wei Wang & Li Bing Zhang & Z.D.Chen, Taxon 61(3): 608. (2012)
Stixaceae Doweld, Phytologia 90(3): 417. (2008)

Note: Family circumscription sensu APG, 2016, who also rejected Su et al. (2012) in order to prevent the unnecessary inflation of family names.
References

Martinov, I.I. 1820. Техно-ботаническiй словарь, на латинскомъ и россiйскомъ языкахъ, составленный […]. [Techno-Botanical Dictionary, in Latin and Russian, compiled by [...]]. i-vi, 682 p. St.-Petersburg: v tipografii Imperatorskoj Rossijskoj Akademii [Nauk] (Russian) DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.96260 Reference page.
Angiosperm Phylogeny Group. 2016. An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG IV. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 181(1): 1–20. DOI: 10.1111/boj.12385 Reference page.
Govaerts, R. et al. 2019. Resedaceae in Kew Science Plants of the World online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2019 July 23. Reference page.
International Plant Names Index. 2019. Resedaceae. Published online. Accessed: July 23 2019.
Martín-Bravo, S., Meimberg, H., Luceño, M., Märkl, W., Valcárcel, V., Braüchler, C., Vargas, P., Heubl, G. 2007. Molecular systematics and biogeography of Resedaceae based on ITS and trnL-F sequences, Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 44: 1105–1120.
Stevens, P.F. 2001 onwards. Angiosperm Phylogeny Website. Version 14, July 2017 [and more or less continuously updated since]. Online. Reference page.
Su J.X., Wang W., Zhang L.B., Chen Z.D. 2012. Phylogenetic placement of two enigmatic genera, Borthwickia and Stixis, based on molecular and pollen data, and the description of a new family of Brassicales, Borthwickiaceae. Taxon 61: 601–611. Full text PDF

Vernacular names
العربية: بليحائية
asturianu: Resedacees
azərbaycanca: Əsərəkkimilər
беларуская: Рэзедовыя
català: Resedàcia
čeština: Rýtovité
dansk: Reseda-familien
Deutsch: Resedagewächse
English: Mignonette family
Esperanto: Rezedacoj
español: Resedáceas
euskara: Erresedazeoak
فارسی: اسپرکیان
suomi: Resedakasvit
français: Résédacées
hrvatski: Katančevke
hornjoserbsce: Róžatowe rostliny
magyar: Rezedafélék
日本語: モクセイソウ科
қазақша: Шашақгүл тұқымдасы
한국어: 목서초과
lietuvių: Razetiniai
Nederlands: Resedafamilie
norsk: Resedafamilien
polski: Rezedowate
română: Resedacee
русский: Резедовые
slovenčina: Rezedovité
svenska: Resedaväxter
українська: Резедові
Tiếng Việt: Họ Cỏ mộc tê
中文: 木犀草科

Resedaceae is a family of mostly herbaceous dicotyledonous plants comprising 107 known species in 8 to 12 genera:[1]

Borthwickia - 1 species, sometimes placed in its own family Borthwickiaceae
Caylusea - 3 species
Forchhammeria - 10 species
Homalodiscus - 2 species
Neothorelia - 1 species
Ochradenus - 4 species
Oligomeris - 3 species
Randonia - 1 species
Reseda - ca 55 species
Sesamoides - 1 species
Stixis - 7 species
Tirania 1 species

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 recognized, although as yet no nomenclatural changes have been made.[2]

The family includes annuals, biennials and perennials and is distributed in temperate to sub-tropical regions of Europe, western Asia, the Middle East, East Asia, North America, Mesoamerica, the Caribbean and South Africa.

Resedaceae were placed under the Cronquist system in the order Capparales. The APG II system places it in the order Brassicales. In APG IV (2016)[3] it was expanded to include the genera Borthwickia (formerly Borthwickiaceae), Neothorelia, Stixis, and Tirania (formerly Stixidaceae) and Forchhammeria (formerly in Capparaceae)
References

Christenhusz, M. J. M. & Byng, J. W. (2016). "The number of known plants species in the world and its annual increase". Phytotaxa. 261 (3): 201–217. doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.261.3.1.
Santiago Martín-Bravo; Harald Meimberg; Modesto Luceño; Wolfgang Märkl; Virginia Valcárcel; Christian Bräuchler; Pablo Vargas & Günther Heubl (2007). "Molecular systematics and biogeography of Resedaceae based on ITS and trnL-F sequences". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 44 (3): 1105–1120. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2006.12.016. PMID 17300965.
Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (2016), "An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG IV", Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, 161 (2): 105–20, doi:10.1111/boj.12385