English: Little darling; Migionette.
Region: Europe, western Asia, Middle East, East Asia, North America, Mesoamerica, Caribbean, South Africa.
Genera: 6 genera, 18 species.
Botany: annuals, biennials, perennials; temperate to sub-tropical; shrubs or small trees; small, often narrow leaves; flowers 4 merous, small, wind-pollinated; curved embryo; endosperm ± lacking; vestured pits in vessels.
TaxonomyIn the
Apg3 classification Resedaceae is a family in the Order
Brassicales.
Resedaceae are closely related to
Gyrostemonaceae and to a lesser extent
Tovariaceae and Pentadiplandraceae.
Resedaceae: Caylusea, Ochradenus, Oligomeris, Randonia, Reseda, Sesamoides.
Gyrostemonaceae: Codonocarpus, Cypselocarpus, Didymotheca, Tersonia, Walteranthus.
Tovariaceae: Tovaria.
Pentadiplandraceae: Pentadiplandra.
In the
Plant theory Resedacae is treated in the same way and placed in
Subphase 3.
Gyrostemonaceae,
Tovariaceae and Pentadiplandraceae are taken together with
Resedaceae.
Genera: ± 10 genera, 107 species.
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
Botany: herbsTaxonomyOligomeris, Randonia and Ochradenus are close to Reseda.
Resedaceae were placed under the Cronquist system in the order Capparales. The APG II system places it in the order
Brassicales. In Apg4 it was expanded to include the genera Borthwickia (formerly Borthwickiaceae), Neothorelia, Stixis, and Tirania (formerly Stixidaceae) and Forchhammeria (formerly in
Capparaceae)