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|accepted_name=Scrophulariaceae
|accepted_authority=Jussieu
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|common_names=Figwort Family
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Scrophulariaceae
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Scrophulariaceae]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 17
|mention_page=page 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 12, 325, 332, 334, 338, 352, 363, 371, 453, 456
|treatment_page=page 324
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Shrubs,</b> subshrubs, trees, or herbs, annual, biennial, or perennial, not fleshy [fleshy], autotrophic. <b>Stems</b> prostrate, ascending, pendent, or erect. <b>Leaves</b> deciduous, semipersistent, or persistent, basal and cauline or cauline, opposite or alternate, simple; stipules absent or present (most <i>Buddleja</i>, <i>Emorya</i>, <i>Limosella</i>); petiole present or absent; blade fleshy or not, leathery or not, margins entire to subentire, undulate, toothed, lobed, divided, or incised. <b>Inflorescences</b> terminal, subterminal, or axillary, racemes, cymes, panicles, or thyrses (or combinations thereof), spikes, fascicles, or flowers 1(or 2). <b>Flowers</b> bisexual or unisexual (some <i>Buddleja</i>), perianth and androecium hypogynous; sepals 4 or 5, ± distinct (<i>Capraria</i>), connate proximally, or to past middle (<i>Limosella</i>), calyx radially or bilaterally symmetric; petals 4 or 5, proximally connate, corolla radially or bilaterally symmetric, regular or bilabiate, rotate to salverform, tubular, funnelform, or campanulate; stamens mostly 4 or 5(–8 in <i>Myoporum</i>), adnate to corolla, didynamous or equal, staminode 0 or 1; pistil 1, 2-carpellate, ovary superior, 2- or 4-locular (partition incomplete and ovary 1-locular distally in <i>Limosella</i>), placentation axile (free-central in <i>Limosella</i>, apical in <i>Myoporum</i>); ovules anatropous or hemitropous (<i>Buddleja</i>), unitegmic, tenuinucellate; style 1; stigma 1, sometimes 2-lobed. <b>Fruits</b> capsules, dry and dehiscence septicidal or loculicidal, or fleshy and drupelike (<i>Bontia</i>, <i>Myoporum</i>) or berries (some <i>Buddleja</i>), [schizocarps]. <b>Seeds</b> 1–300, white, yellow, orangish, brown, or black, ovoid, oblong-ovoid, conic, ellipsoid, L-shaped, angled, cylindric, threadlike, or fusiform; embryo straight or slightly curved, endosperm abundant or not.</span><!--

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|distribution=nearly worldwide except boreal and arctic North America and Asia;tropical Africa;Antarctica.
|discussion=<p>Genera ca. 60, species ca. 1700 (9 genera, 45 species in the flora).</p><!--
--><p>As noted in the introduction to this volume, the authors follow a narrow circumscription of Scrophulariaceae. Molecular studies (especially R. G. Olmstead et al. 2001 and B. Oxelman et al. 2005) have shown that some of the taxa commonly included in earlier treatments of Scrophulariaceae are better placed elsewhere, particularly in Orobanchaceae (hemiparasitic members, for example, Rhinantheae Lamarck & de Candolle) and Plantaginaceae (for example, <i>Penstemon</i>). Oxelman et al. and D. C. Tank et al. (2006) both recognized eight tribes in their analyses of the Scrophulariaceae. Five of the eight, Buddlejeae Bartling (<i>Buddleja</i>, <i>Emorya</i>), Leucophylleae Miers (<i>Capraria</i>, <i>Leucophyllum</i>), Limoselleae Dumortier (<i>Limosella</i>), Myoporeae Reichenbach (<i>Bontia</i>, <i>Myoporum</i>), and Scrophularieae Dumortier (<i>Scrophularia</i>, <i>Verbascum</i>), are represented in the flora area.</p><!--
--><p>Inclusion of Myoporaceae (three or four genera and 125 species, in the sense of A. Cronquist 1981) is warranted based on its close similarity to Leucophylleae. Morphological similarities have led workers either to propose transferring Leucophylleae from Scrophulariaceae to Myoporaceae (C. J. Niezgoda and A. S. Tomb 1975) or to question the validity of recognizing Myoporaceae as distinct from Scrophulariaceae (J. Henrickson and L. D. Flyr 1985). R. G. Olmstead et al. (2001) confirmed this closeness in their molecular survey, with <i>Leucophyllum</i> and <i>Myoporum</i> clustering together and forming a clade sister to Buddlejaceae; Leucophylleae and Myoporeae also clustered together in the studies by B. Oxelman et al. (2005) and E. Gándara and V. Sosa (2013).</p><!--
--><p>Members of Buddlejaceae (10 genera, ca. 150 species, in the sense of A. Cronquist 1981) often have been included in Loganiaceae (G. K. Rogers 1986) or treated as a separate family. Cronquist noted that the four-lobed corolla may be the primitive condition for the Scrophulariales and that Buddlejaceae is clearly not primitive. B. Oxelman et al. (1999) showed that Buddlejaceae is monophyletic; R. G. Olmstead et al. (2001) and Oxelman et al. (2005) both found that <i>Buddleja</i> clustered within Scrophulariaceae in the strict sense; that interpretation is followed here. J. H. Chau et al. (2017) found that Buddlejeae is monophyletic.</p>
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|id=chau2017a
|text=Chau, J. H. et al. 2017. Phylogenetic relationships in tribe Buddlejeae (Scrophulariaceae) based on multiple nuclear and plastid markers. Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 184: 137–166.
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|id=chinnock2007a
|text=Chinnock, R. J. 2007. Eremophila and Allied Genera: A Monograph of the Myoporaceae. Dural, New South Wales.
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|id=fischer2004b
|text=Fischer, E. 2004. Scrophulariaceae. In: K. Kubitzki et al., eds. 1990+. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants. 14+ vols. Berlin, etc. Vol. 7, pp. 333–432.
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|id=flyr1970a
|text=Flyr, L. D. 1970b. A Systematic Study of the Tribe Leucophylleae (Scrophulariaceae). Ph.D. dissertation. University of Texas.
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|id=henrickson1985a
|text=Henrickson, J. and L. D. Flyr. 1985. Systematics of Leucophyllum and Eremogeton (Scrophulariaceae). Sida 11: 107–172.
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|id=karrfalt1983a
|text=Karrfalt, E. E. and A. S. Tomb. 1983. Air spaces, secretory cavities, and the relationship between Leucophylleae (Scrophulariaceae) and Myoporaceae. Syst. Bot. 8: 29–32.
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|id=niezgoda1975a
|text=Niezgoda, C. J. and A. S. Tomb. 1975. Systematic palynology of tribe Leucophylleae (Scrophulariaceae) and selected Myoporaceae. Pollen & Spores 17: 495–516.
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|id=olmstead2001a
|text=Olmstead, R. G. et al. 2001. Disintegration of the Scrophulariaceae. Amer. J. Bot. 88: 348–361.
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|id=oxelman1999a
|text=Oxelman, B., M. Backlund, and B. Bremer. 1999. Relationships of the Buddlejaceae s.l. investigated using parsimony jackknife and branch support analysis of chloroplast ndhF and rbcL sequence data. Syst. Bot. 24: 164–182.
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|id=oxelman2005a
|text=Oxelman, B. et al. 2005. Further disintegration of Scrophulariaceae. Taxon 54: 411–425.
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|id=theisen2004a
|text=Theisen, I. and E. Fischer. 2004. Myoporaceae. In: K. Kubitzki et al., eds. 1990+. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants. 14+ vols. Berlin, etc. Vol. 7, pp. 289–292.
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|id=zona1998a
|text=Zona, S. 1998. The Myoporaceae in the southeastern United States. Harvard Pap. Bot. 3: 171–179.
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==Key==
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|1
|Herbs or subshrubs.
|[[#key-0-2| > 2]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Plants aquatic or paludal; stems prostrate or ascending; leaves basal; stolons present.
|[[Limosella|Limosella]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Plants terrestrial; stems erect; leaves basal and cauline or cauline; stolons absent.
|[[#key-0-3| > 3]]
|-id=key-0-3
|3
|Leaves opposite.
|[[Scrophularia|Scrophularia]]
|-id=key-0-3
|3
|Leaves alternate.
|[[#key-0-4| > 4]]
|-id=key-0-4
|4
|Leaf surfaces with punctate glands and internal secretory oil cavities; inflorescences axillary, racemes.
|[[Capraria|Capraria]]
|-id=key-0-4
|4
|Leaf surfaces without punctate glands and internal secretory oil cavities; inflorescences terminal, spikes, racemes, or panicles.
|[[Verbascum|Verbascum]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Shrubs or trees.
|[[#key-0-5| > 5]]
|-id=key-0-5
|5
|Sepals 4; stipules usually present or as stipular lines.
|[[#key-0-6| > 6]]
|-id=key-0-6
|6
|Calyx lobes linear-subulate; corollas long-tubular.
|[[Emorya|Emorya]]
|-id=key-0-6
|6
|Calyx lobes ovate to lanceolate; corollas campanulate-rotate, salverform, funnelform, or tubular.
|[[Buddleja|Buddleja]]
|-id=key-0-5
|5
|Sepals 5; stipules absent.
|[[#key-0-7| > 7]]
|-id=key-0-7
|7
|Stems densely silvery gray-tomentose, sometimes appressed-stellate; corollas purplish lavender to violet or blue, rarely white, with white in proximal throat, usually marked with yellow-brown, orange, or purple-violet spots; fruits capsules, dry.
|[[Leucophyllum|Leucophyllum]]
|-id=key-0-7
|7
|Stems glabrous; corollas white, spotted with purple, or buff or coppery brown to greenish tan; fruits drupelike capsules, fleshy.
|[[#key-0-8| > 8]]
|-id=key-0-8
|8
|Corollas white, spotted with purple.
|[[Myoporum|Myoporum]]
|-id=key-0-8
|8
|Corollas buff or coppery brown to greenish tan.
|[[Bontia|Bontia]]
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|author=Richard K. Rabeler;Craig C. Freeman;Wayne J. Elisens
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|family=Scrophulariaceae
|distribution=nearly worldwide except boreal and arctic North America and Asia;tropical Africa;Antarctica.
|reference=chau2017a;chinnock2007a;fischer2004b;flyr1970a;henrickson1985a;karrfalt1983a;niezgoda1975a;olmstead2001a;oxelman1999a;oxelman2005a;theisen2004a;zona1998a
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