Familia circa 1200 species comprehendit,[2] quae in circa quinquaginta generibus distribuuntur. Maxima genera sunt Eriogonum (240 species), Rumex (200 species), Coccoloba (120 species), Persicaria (100 species), et Calligonum (80 species).[3][4] Familia est per orbem terrarum praesens, sed in Zona Septentrionali Temperatadiversissima.
Inter Polygonaceas sunt nonnullae herbae inutiles molestissimae, praecipue species generum Emicis, Persicariae, Polygoni, et Rumicis.[2]
Indices generum Polygonacearum in interreti inveniuntur.[8][9][10] In indice sequenti, columnae 1–3 sunt quadraginta et tria genera a Brandbyge in The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants descripta; columna quarta est imperfectus generum in recentioribus investigationibus agnitorum index.
Antonius Laurentius de Jussieu, Genera plantarum: secundum ordines naturales disposita, juxta methodum in Horto regio parisiensi exaratam (Lutetiae: Herrisant et Barrois, 1789), p. 82. Vide secitonem de nexibus externis infra.
Craig C. Freeman et James L. Reveal, "Polygonaceae," in Flora of North America, ed. a Flora of North America editoribus (Novi Eboraci: Oxford University Press, 2005), ISBN 978-0-19-522211-1, 5:216–601. Vide nexus externos infra.
John Brandbyge, "Polygonaceae," in The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants, edd. Klaus Kubitzki, Jens G. Rohwer, et Volker Bittrich (Berolini et Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag, 1993), ISBN 978-3-540-55509-4 (Berolinum), ISBN 978-0-387-55509-6 (Novum Eboracum), 2:531–544.
Anthony Huxley, Mark Griffiths, et Margot Levy, The New Royal Horticultural Society Dictionary of Gardening (Londinii: The Macmillan Press, 1992; Novi Eboraci: The Stockton Press, 1992), ISBN 978-0-333-47494-5.
Vernon H. Heywood, Richard K. Brummitt, Ole Seberg, et Alastair Culham, Flowering Plant Families of the WorldOntarione: Firefly Books, 2007), ISBN 978-1-55407-206-4.
Index Generum in Polygonaceis. Apud Polygonaceae." Apud: Peter F. Stevens, 2001+. Angiosperm Phylogeny Website. Apud: Situm Missouri Botanical Garden. Vide nexus externos infra.
Index Generum in Polygonaceis. Apud: Vascular Plant Families and Genera. Apud: World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. Apud: Electronic Plant Information Center. Apud: Situm Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Vide nexus externos infra.
Polygonaceae in L. Watson et M. J. Dallwitz (1992+), The families of flowering plants: descriptions, illustrations, identification, information retrieval.