Fagopyrum

Fagopyrum esculentum

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Caryophyllales

Classification System: APG IV Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Orthokaryota Cladus: Neokaryota Cladus: Photokaryota Cladus: Diaphoretickes Cladus: CAM Regnum*: Archaeplastida Regnum: Plantae Regnum*: Viridiplantae Cladus: Streptophyta Cladus: Phragmoplastophyta Cladus: Embryophyta Cladus: Polysporangiophyta Divisio*: Tracheophyta Cladus: Eutracheophyta Cladus: Euphyllophytina Cladus: Megaphylla Cladus: Radiatopses Cladus: Lignophyta Cladus: Metalignophyta Diviso*: Spermatophyta Classis*: Angiospermae Cladus: Mesangiospermae Cladus: Eudicota Cladus: Core eudicots Ordo: Caryophyllales

Familia: Polygonaceae
Subfamilia: Polygonoideae
Tribus: Fagopyreae
Genus: Fagopyrum
Species: F. callianthum – F. capillatum – F. caudatum – F. crispatifolium – F. cymosum – F. densivillosum – F. esculentum – F. gilesii – F. gracilipedoides – F. gracilipes – F. homotropicum – F. jinshaense – F. kashmirianum – F. leptopodum – F. lineare – F. longistylum – F. longzhoushanense – F. luojishanense – F. macrocarpum – F. pleioramosum – F. pugense – F. qiangcai – F. rubrifolium – F. snowdenii – F. statice – F. tataricum – F. tibeticum – F. urophyllum – F. wenchuanense – F. zuogongense

Source(s) of checklist:
Govaerts, R. et al. 2026. Fagopyrum in Kew Science Plants of the World Online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2026 June 18. Reference page.

Name

Fagopyrum Mill., Gard. Dict. Abr., ed. 4. 495 (1754), nom. et typ. cons.

• Typus: F. esculentum
  Moench, Methodus: 290 (1794)
  • Name originally conserved against Polygonum sect. Helxine L., which does not have priority at genus rank.

Synonyms

• Homotypic
  • Helxine L. in Opera Var.: 223 (1758), nom. illeg. superfl.
• Heterotypic
  • Harpagocarpus Hutch. & Dandy in Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew 1926: 364 (1926)
  • Kunokale Raf. in Fl. Tellur. 3: 12 (1837)
  • Parapteropyrum A.J.Li in Acta Phytotax. Sin. 19: 330 (1981)
  • Phegopyrum Peterm. in Fl. Bienitz: 92 (1841)
  • Trachopyron J.Gerard ex Raf. in Fl. Tellur. 3: 10 (1837) />

Note: Hernández-Ledesma et al., (2015) tentatively treated Eskemukerjea Malick & Sengupta as a segregate and it was left as incertae sedis by Sanchez et al., (2011). Both were content that Harpagocarpus Hutch. & Dandy, Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew 1926(8): 364 (1926) and Parapteropyrum A.J.Li, Acta Phytotax. Sin. 19(3): 330 (1981) are synonyms. See Ohsako & Li (2020).

References

Primary references

• Miller, P. 1754. The Gardeners Dictionary. containing the methods of cultivating and improving all sorts of trees, plants, and flowers, for the kitchen, fruit, and pleasure gardens, as also those which are used in medicine : with directions for the culture of vineyards, and making of wine in England. In which likewise are included the practical parts of husbandry. Abridged. Ed. 4, Vol. 1–3 (unpaged). John & James Rivington, London. DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.79061 Reference page.  1: [495]

Additional references

• Hernández-Ledesma, P., Berendsohn, W. G., Borsch, T., Mering, S. v., Akhani, H., Arias, S., Castañeda-Noa, I., Eggli, U., Eriksson, R., Flores-Olvera, H., Fuentes-Bazán, S., Kadereit, G., Klak, C., Korotkova, N., Nyffeler R., Ocampo G., Ochoterena, H., Oxelman, B., Rabeler, R. K., Sanchez, A., Schlumpberger, B. O. & Uotila, P. 2015. A taxonomic backbone for the global synthesis of species diversity in the angiosperm order Caryophyllales. Willdenowia 45(3): 281–383. DOI: 10.3372/wi.45.45301 Reference page. 
• Ohsako, T. & Li, C. 2020. Classification and systematics of the Fagopyrum species. Breeding Science 70(1): 93-100. DOI: 10.1270/jsbbs.19028PDF.
• Sanchez, A., Schuster, T.M., Burke, J.M. & Kron, K.A. 2011. Taxonomy of Polygonoideae (Polygonaceae): a new tribal classification. Taxon 60(1): 151–160. DOI: 10.1002/tax.601013 JSTOR Reference page. 
• Tian, X., Luo, J., Wang, A., Mao, K. & Liu, J. 2011. On the origin of the woody buckwheat Fagopyrum tibeticum (= Parapteropyrum tibeticum) in the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 61(2): 515-520. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2011.07.001 Full text on ResearchGate Reference page. 
• Wang, C.-L., Qiang, Z., Ding, M.-Q., Tang, Y., Zhu, X.-M., Liu, J.L., Shao, J.R. & Zhou, M.L. 2017. Fagopyrum longzhoushanense, a new species of Polygonaceae from Sichuan, China. Phytotaxa 291(1): 73–80. DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.291.1.7 Reference page. 

Links

• Govaerts, R. et al. 2020. Fagopyrum in Kew Science Plants of the World Online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2020 Jan. 1. Reference page. 
• Hassler, M. 2017. Fagopyrum. World Plants: Synonymic Checklists of the Vascular Plants of the World In: Roskovh, Y., Abucay, L., Orrell, T., Nicolson, D., Bailly, N., Kirk, P., Bourgoin, T., DeWalt, R.E., Decock, W., De Wever, A., Nieukerken, E. van, Zarucchi, J. & Penev, L., eds. 2017. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life. Published online. Accessed: 2017 Mar. 21. Reference page. 
• International Plant Names Index. 2017. Fagopyrum. Published online. Accessed: Mar. 5 2017. Reference page.
• Tropicos.org 2016. Fagopyrum. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 5 Mar. 2016. Reference page.
• Fagopyrum – Taxon details on National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).
• EOL: Fagopyrum

Vernacular names

• български: Елда
• Deutsch: Buchweizen
• English: Buckwheats
• eesti: Tatar
• suomi: Viljatattaret
• 日本語: ソバ属
• македонски: Елда
• polski: Gryka
• slovenščina: ajda
• српски / srpski: Хељда
• 中文（简体）: 荞麦属
• 中文（繁體）: 蕎麥屬

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