Ajugoideae

Familia: Lamiaceae
Subfamilia: Ajugoideae
Tribus: Ajugeae – Clerodendreae – Rotheceae – Teucrieae

Genera: Aegiphila – Ajuga – Amasonia – Amethystea – Caryopteris – Clerodendrum – Discretitheca – Glossocarya – Hosea – Kalaharia – Karomia – Monochilus – Ovieda – Oxera – Peronema – Petraeovitex – Pseudocaryopteris – Rotheca – Rubiteucris – Schnabelia – Tetraclea – Teucrium – Trichostema – Tripora – Volkameria

Ajugoideae Luerss., Handb. Syst. Bot. 2: 1016 (1882).

• Type genus: Ajuga L. (1753)

• Homotypic
  • Ajugaceae Döll, Rhein. Fl.: 375. 24-27 (1843)
• Heterotypic
  • Aegiphilaceae Raf., Sylva Tellur.: 161 (1838).
  • Siphonanthaceae Raf., Fl. Tellur. 4: 87 (1838).
  • Teucrioideae Caruel in F. Parlatore, Fl. Ital. 6: 279 (1884).

• Luerssen, C. 1882. Handbuch der systematischen Botanik, mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Arzneipflanzen = Medicinisch-pharmaceutische Botanik: zugleich als Handbuch der systematischen Botanik für Botaniker, Ärzte und Apotheker. 2. Band. H. Haessel, Leipzig. BHL Reference page. 

• Harley, R.M., Atkins, S., Budantsev, A. L., Cantino, P.D., Conn, B.J., Grayer, M., Harley, M.M., De Kok, R., Krestovskaya, T., Moralaes, R., Paton, A.J., Ryding, O. & Upson, T. 2004. Labiatae. Pp. 167-275, in Kadereit, J. (ed.), The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants. VII. Flowering Plants: Dicotyledons. Lamiales (except Acanthaceae including Avicenniaceae). Springer, Berlin.
• Reveal, J.L. 2012. An outline of a classification scheme for extant flowering plants. Phytoneuron 2012-37: 1–221. PDF Reference page. 
• Salmaki, Y., Kattari, S., Heubl, G. & Bräuchler, C. 2016. Phylogeny of non-monophyletic Teucrium (Lamiaceae: Ajugoideae): Implications for character evolution and taxonomy. Taxon 65(4): 805–822. DOI: 10.12705/654.8 ResearchGate Reference page. 
• Steane, D.A., de Kok, R.P.J. & Olmstead, R.G. 2004. Phylogenetic relationships between Clerodendron (Lamiaceae) and other ajugoid genera inferred from nuclear and chloroplast DNA sequence data. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 32(1): 39-45. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2003.11.011 Full text PDF Reference page. 
• Yuan, Y.W., Mabberley, D.J., Steane, D.A. & Olmstead, R.G. 2010. Further disintegration and redefinition of Clerodendrum (Lamiaceae): Implications for the understanding of the evolution of an intriguing breeding strategy. Taxon 59(1): 125–133. PDF Reference page. 
• Zhao, F., Chen, Y.P., Salmaki, Y., Drew, B.T., Wilson, T.C., Scheen, A.-C., Celep, F., Bräuchler, C., Bendiksby, M., Wang, Q., Min, D.Z., Peng, H., Olmstead, R.G., Li, B. & Xiang, C.L. 2021. An updated tribal classification of Lamiaceae based on plastome phylogenomics. BMC Biology 19(1): 1–27. DOI: 10.1186/s12915-020-00931-z Reference page. 

• International Plant Names Index. 2024. Ajugoideae. Published online. Accessed: July 12 2024.
• Stevens, P.F. 2001 onwards. Angiosperm Phylogeny Website. Version 14, July 2017 [and more or less continuously updated since]. Online. Reference page. 
• Tropicos.org 2022. Ajugoideae. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 23 Sept. 2022.
• USDA, ARS, Germplasm Resources Information Network. Ajugoideae in the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN), U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service.

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