Editing Scrophulariaceae (section)

==Taxonomy==
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In the past, it was treated as including about 275 genera and over 5,000 species, but its circumscription has been radically altered since numerous molecular [[phylogenies]] have shown the traditional broad circumscription to be grossly [[polyphyletic]].<ref>Fischer says that, if we consider morphology, it has been obvious for the last decades that the Scrophulariaceae do not represent a monophyletic group. See [[#fischer2004scrophulariaceae|FISCHER (2004)]], p. 346.</ref>  Many genera have recently been transferred to other families within the [[Lamiales]], notably [[Plantaginaceae]] and [[Orobanchaceae]], but also several new families.<ref name="olmstead2001">{{cite journal |author = Olmstead, R. G., dePamphilis, C. W., Wolfe, A. D., Young, N. D., Elisons, W. J. & Reeves P. A.|title = Disintegration of the Scrophulariaceae | journal= American Journal of Botany| volume= 88| pages = 348–361| year=2001 | doi = 10.2307/2657024 | pmid = 11222255 |issue = 2 |jstor = 2657024| doi-access = free}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | author = Olmstead, R. G. | title =  Whatever happened to the Scrophulariaceae? | journal=Fremontia|volume = 30| pages= 13–22|year=2003}} - on line [http://www.cnps.org/cnps/publications/fremontia/Fremontia_Vol30-No2.pdf here]</ref>  Several families of the Lamiales have had their circumscriptions enlarged to accommodate genera transferred from the Scrophulariacae ''[[sensu lato]]''.

Fischer (2004) considered the family to consist of three subfamilies – [[Antirrhinoideae]], [[Gratioloideae]], and [[Digitalidoideae]]. He further divided the Gratioloideae into five tribes – [[Gratioleae]], [[Angeloniaeae]], [[Stemodieae]], [[Limoselleae]], and [[Lindernieae]]. He then divided the Gratioleae, with its 16 genera (and about 182 species) into three subtribes – [[Caprarinae]], [[Dopatrinae]], and [[Gratiolinae]]. The Gratiolinae had 10 genera (about 121 species) distributed through temperate and tropical America – ''[[Bacopa]]'' and ''[[Mecardonia]]'' (formerly ''[[Herpestis]]''), ''[[Gratiola amphiantha|Amphianthus]]'', ''[[Gratiola]]'', ''[[Sophronanthe]]'', ''[[Benjaminia (plant)|Benjaminia]]'', ''[[Scoparia (plant)|Scoparia]]'', ''[[Boelkea]]'', ''[[Maeviella]]'', and ''[[Braunblequetia]]''. Many of these were transferred to the family Plantaginaceae, in the tribe Gratioleae.