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This is a list of genera in the plant family Fabaceae, or Leguminosae, commonly known as the legume, pea, or bean family, are a large and economically important family of flowering plants of about 794 genera [1] and nearly 20,000 known species.
The c. 19,000 known legume species amount to about 7% of flowering plant species. [9] [11] Fabaceae is the most common family found in tropical rainforests and dry forests of the Americas and Africa. [12] Recent molecular and morphological evidence supports the fact that the Fabaceae is a single monophyletic family. [13]
Legumes (/ ˈ l ɛ ɡ j uː m, l ə ˈ ɡ j uː m /) are plants in the family Fabaceae (or Leguminosae), or the fruit or seeds of such plants. When used as a dry grain for human consumption, the seeds are also called pulses .
Fabaceae (legume family (peas)) Cercis occidentalis: western redbud Fabaceae (legume family (peas)) Cercis siliquastrum: Judas-tree Fabaceae (legume family (peas)) Cladrastis: yellowwoods; Cladrastis kentukea: Kentucky yellowwood Fabaceae (legume family (peas)) Dalbergia: true rosewoods; Dalbergia bariensis: Burmese rosewood Fabaceae (legume ...
The Fabaceae, as the third-largest plant family in the world, contain most of the diversity of the Fabales, the other families making up a comparatively small portion of the order's diversity. Research in the order is largely focused on the Fabaceae, due in part to its great biological diversity, and to its importance as food plants.
Fabales is an order of flowering plants included in the rosid group of the eudicots in the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group II classification system. In the APG II circumscription, this order includes the families Fabaceae or legumes (including the subfamilies Caesalpinioideae, Mimosoideae, and Faboideae), Quillajaceae, Polygalaceae or milkworts (including the families Diclidantheraceae ...
Cassia is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae, and the subfamily Caesalpinioideae. Species are known commonly as cassias. The genus includes 37 species and has a pantropical distribution. [2] Species of the genera Senna and Chamaecrista were previously included in Cassia.
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