Pyroloideae

Pyroloideae
Pyrola asarifolia
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Asterids
Order:	Ericales
Family:	Ericaceae
Subfamily:	Pyroloideae Kostel.
Type genus
Pyrola
Genera
Chimaphila Moneses Orthilia Pyrola

Pyroloideae is a subfamily of plants in the family Ericaceae. It was formerly treated as a separate family, Pyrolaceae. It has also been treated as the tribe Pyroleae within the subfamily Monotropoideae. It consists of four genera: Chimaphila containing 5 species, Pyrola containing 30 species and Moneses and Orthilia which are monotypic. They are mixotrophic, gaining nutrition from photosynthesis, but also from mycorrhizal fungi.

Genera list

Image	Genus	Living species
	Chimaphila Pursh	Chimaphila japonica Chimaphila maculata (spotted wintergreen, also called striped wintergreen, striped prince's pine or rheumatism root) Chimaphila menziesii (little prince's pine) Chimaphila monticola Chimaphila umbellata (umbellate wintergreen, pipsissewa, or prince's pine)
	Moneses Salisb. ex Gray	Moneses uniflora, one-flowered wintergreen
	Orthilia Raf.	Orthilia secunda, one-sided-wintergreen
	Pyrola L.	Pyrola alboreticulata Pyrola americana Pyrola angustifolia Pyrola asarifolia Pyrola atropurpurea Pyrola bracteata Pyrola calliantha Pyrola carpatica Pyrola chlorantha Pyrola chouana Pyrola corbieri Pyrola dahurica Pyrola decorata Pyrola elliptica Pyrola forrestiana Pyrola grandiflora Pyrola japonica Pyrola macrocalyx Pyrola markonica Pyrola mattfeldiana Pyrola media Pyrola minor Pyrola monophylla Pyrola morrisonensis Pyrola nephrophylla Pyrola norvegica Pyrola picta Pyrola pumila Pyrola renifolia Pyrola rotundifolia Pyrola rugosa Pyrola shanxiensis Pyrola sororia Pyrola szechuanica Pyrola tschanbaischanica Pyrola xinjiangensis