Polygalaceae Hoffmanns. & Link

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

• APG IV (2016) http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/boj.12385

The Kew Tropical Plant Families Identification Handbook

• Aymard, G., Berry, P. E. & Eriksen, B. (2004). Polygalaceae. In: P. E. Berry, K. Yatskievych & B. K. Holst (eds), Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana 8: 316–347. Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St. Louis.
• Eriksen, B. & Persson, C. (2007). Polygalaceae. In: K. Kubitzki (ed.), The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 9: 345–363. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
• Paiva, J. (2007). Polygalaceae. In: H. J. Beentje & S. Ghazanfar (eds), Flora of Tropical East Africa. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
• van der Meijden, R. (1988). Polygalaceae. Flora Malesiana, Ser. I, 10: 455–539.

Neotropikey

• Aymard, G.A. Berry, P.E. & Eriksen, B. (2004). Polygalaceae. In: Steyermark, J.A., Berry, P.E., Yatskievych and Holst, B.K. (eds.) Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana, vol. 8. Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis.
• Bernardi, L. (2000). Consideraciones taxonomicas y fitogeográficas acerca de 10 Polygalae Americanas. Cavanillesia Altera I: 1-456. Blake, S. (1916). A revision of the genus Polygala in Mexico, Central America and the West Indies. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
• Eriksen, B. (1993). A revision of Monnina subg. Pterocarya (Polygalaceae) in Northwestern South America. University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, PhD thesis.
• Eriksen, B. (1993). Phylogeny of the Polygalaceae and its taxonomic implications. Pl. Syst. Evol. 186: 33-55.
• Eriksen, B. and Persson, C. (2006)(2007). Polygalaceae, pp. 345-363. In: K. Kubitzki (ed.) The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants vol. IX. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
• Eriksen, B., Ståhl, B. and Persson, C. (2000). Fam. 216. Polygalaceae. In: G. Harling and L. Andersson (eds). Flora of Ecuador, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg.
• Forest, F., Chase, M.W., Persson, C., Crane, P.R. and Hawkings, J.A. (2007). The role of biotic and abiotic factors in evolution of ant dispersal in the milkwort family (Polygalaceae). Evolution 61-7: 1675-1694.
• Marques, M. do C. (1980). Revisão das espécies do gênero Bredemeyera Willd. (Polygalaceae) do Brasil. Rodriguésia 67:3-33.
• Marques, M. do C. (1996). Securidaca L. (Polygalaceae) do Brasil. Arch. Jard. Bot. Rio de Janeiro 34(1): 7-144.
• Persson, C. (2001). Phylogenetic relationships in Polygalaceae based on chloroplast DNA sequences from the trnL-F region. Taxon 50: 763-779.

Flora of Somalia

• Cuf. Enum.: 405–412 (1956)
• Fl. Eth. Er. 2(1): 177–188 (2000)
• Fl. Trop. E. Afr. (2007).
• Flora Somalia, Vol 1, (1993) Author: by M. Thulin [updated by M. Thulin 2008]

Trees of New Guinea

• Eriksen, B. & Persson, C. (2007). Polygalaceae. In: K. Kubitzki (ed.), The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 9: 345–363. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
• Laura V.S. Jennings (2022). Trees of New Guinea. Timothy M. A. Utteridge and Laura V. S. Jennings (Eds) Kew Publishing. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• van Royen, P. & van Steenis, C.G.G.J. (1952). Eriandra, a new genus of Polygalaceae from New Guinea. J. Arn. Arbor. 33: 91–95.
• van der Meijden, R. (1988). Polygalaceae. Fl. Males., Ser. I, Spermat. 10: 455–539.

The Kew Temperate Plant Families Identification Handbook

• Chen, S., Ma, H. & Parnell, J. A. N. (2008). Polygalaceae. In: Z. Y. Wu, P. H. Raven & D. Y. Hong (eds), Flora of China 11: 139–159. Science Press, Beijing & Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St. Louis.
• Eriksen, B. & Persson, C. (2007). Polygalaceae. In: K. Kubitzki (ed.), The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants, IX: 345–363. Springer Verlag, Berlin & Heidelberg.
• Pastore, J. F. B. (2018). Polygala veadeiroensis (Polygalaceae), a new species of Polygala endemic to Chapada dos Veadeiros, Goiás, Brazil. Kew Bull. 73: 37.
• Pastore, J. F. B., Abbott, J. R., Neubig, K. M., Whitten, W. M., Mascarenhas, R. B., Mota, M. C. A. & van den Berg, C. (2017). A molecular phylogeny and taxonomic notes in Caamembeca (Polygalaceae). Syst. Bot. 42: 54–62.