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Papilionaceae

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Faboideae is a of the flowering plant family Fabaceae or Leguminosae. An acceptable alternative name for the subfamily is Papilionoideae.

This subfamily is widely distributed and members are adapted to a wide variety of environments. Faboideae may be trees, shrubs or herbs. The flowers are classically pea shaped and root nodulation is very common.

Genera

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  1. The type genus, Faba, is a synonym of Vicia, and is listed here as Vicia.
  2. The genus Kennedya is a synonym of Kennedia, and is listed here as Kennedia.[2]

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Taxonomy

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The Family Papilionaceae is further organized into finer groupings including:

Genera

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Abrus

Abrus is a genus of in the pea family, Fabaceae. It contains, 13–18 species, but is best known for a single species, Jequirity (A. precatorius). The highly toxic seeds of that species are used to make jewellery. [more]

Adenocarpus

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Adesmia

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Aeschynomene

Herbs or shrubs. Leaves pinnate, leaflets numerous, entire, exstipellate. Flowers in simple or branched axillary racemes, sometimes terminal. Bracts usually stipuliform, bracteoles appressed to the calyx. Calyx with subequal lobes or 2-lipped. Petals subequal; vexillum shortly clawed, orbicular, wings obliquely obovate or oblong, Keel not beaked. Stamens in 2 bundles of 5 each, anthers uniform. Ovary stipitate, 2 or more ovulate, style incurved, not bearded. Stigma terminal. Fruit stipitate, joints 2 or more, smooth or muricate, indehiscent, 1-seeded parts separable or rarely dehiscent by one suture.[1] [more]

Afgekia

Afgekia is a small genus of large climbing shrubs native to Asia, reminiscent of the related genus Wisteria. The genus was named from the initials of Arthur Francis George Kerr (1877–1942), an Irish-born plant collector who worked in then-Siam in the early twentieth century. [more]

Alhagi

Alhagi is a genus of plants in the family Fabaceae. They are commonly called camelthorns or manna trees. There are three to five species. [more]

Almaleea

Almaleea is a genus of shrubs from the legume family Fabaceae native to Australia. [more]

Alysicarpus

Alysicarpus is a genus of plants in the family . [more]

Amicia

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Amorpha

Amorpha is a genus of plants in the pea family . All the species are native to North America, from southern Canada, most of the United States, and northern Mexico. They are commonly known as false indigo. The name Amorpha means "deformed" in Greek and was given because flowers of this genus only have one petal, unlike the usual "pea-shaped" flowers of the Faboideae subfamily. Amorpha is missing the wing and keel petals. [more]

Amphicarpaea

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Andira

Andira is a genus of in the Fabaceae family. It contains the following species: [more]

Anthyllis

Anthyllis is a genus of plants in the family . This genus contains both herbaceous and shrubby species and is distributed in Europe, the Middle East and North Africa. The most widespread and familiar species is Kidney Vetch (A. vulneraria) which is a familiar grassland flower throughout the region and has also been introduced to New Zealand. [more]

Aotus

A Genus in the Kingdom Animalia. [more]

Apios

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Arachis

Herbs, annual or perennial, erect or prostrate. Leaves with partly adnate stipules, paripinnately 3-4-foliolate, stipels absent. Inflorescence solitary or 2-7-flowered spikes; bracts membranous, primary ones biapiculate. Calyx membraneous, filiform, 5-lobed, the 4 upper lobes united, the lower more or less free. Flowers yellow, sometimes striped with red. Vexillum, rounded, shortly narrowed at the base, wings free, keel beaked, incurved. Stamens 8-10, monadelphous, 4-5 anthers elongate, alternating with 4-5 short ones. Ovary subsessile, linear 1-7-ovuled, style very long, soon deciduous; stigma minute, terminal. Fruit 1-6-seeded, slightly constricted, functionally indehiscent, thick walled, developing below the soil, having been pushed beneath by the considerable lengthening of the gynophore. Seeds ovoid or oblong; cotyledons rich in oil.[2] [more]

Aspalathus

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Astragalus

Herbs, undershrubs or shrubs. Leaf paripinnate or imparipinnate, rarely unifoliolate or digitately trifoliolate; leaflets entire, stipels absent; stipulate. Inflorescence racemose, spicate umbellate or solitary; peduncles generally axillary. Flowers bracteate; bracteoles present or absent; pedicellate or sessile, violet or purple to white or pale yellow. Calyx tubular, teeth subequal. Vexillum ovate, obovate, oblong, panduriform or sometimes appendiculate Wing and keel generally with long claws. Stamens diadelphous, vexillary stamen free, rest (9) united, anthers uniform. Ovary sessile or stipitate, glabrous or pubescent; style straight or incurved, stigma mostly terminal, sometimes penicillate. Fruit sessile or stipitate, 2-valved, unilocular, partly or completely bilocular by an intrusive membrane. Seed often reniform.[3] [more]

Baptisia

Baptisia is a genus of plants in the legume family. One of the better known species is , which is native to North America and commonly grown in gardens. [more]

Bolusanthus

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Bossiaea

Bossiaea is a in the pea family (Fabaceae) consisting of about 70 species which are native to Australia. The genus is named in honour of Bossieu de la Martinière, a botanist on La Pérouse's expedition to Australia. [more]

Brongniartia

Brongniartia is a of leguminous plants, first named by Kunth[1] after the French botanist Adolphe Brongniart. [more]

Brya

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Butea

Butea is also a commune in , Romania, see Butea, Iasi. [more]

Cajanus

The genus Cajanus is a member of the family . There are 37 species, mainly distributed across Africa, Asia and Australasia. [more]

Callistachys

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Calpurnia

Calpurnia can refer to: [more]

Campylotropis

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Canavalia

The Canavalia in the large legume family (Fabaceae), comprises approximately 70-75 species of tropical origin. These vines have usually bright pea-flowers which are pollinated by insects such as solitary bees and carpenter bees (e.g. Xylocopa confusa). [more]

Caragana

Trees or shrubs, leaf paripinnate or digitate, rachis ending in a spine or bristle, leaflets entire; stipules subulate or spinescent. Inflorescence solitary or pedicelled, a 2-3-flowered umbel. Bract and bracteoles often subulate. Calyx obliquely placed on pedicel, teeth deltoid or elongated. Corolla yellow, or whitish red. Vexillum ovate or suborbicular. Wing obliquely oblong. Keel straight, obtuse. Stamens diadelphous, vexillary stamen free, anthers uniform. Ovary sessile, many-ovuled, style straight or slightly incurved, stigma terminal. Fruit sessile, terete, 2-valved, unilocular, many-seeded.[4] [more]

Carmichaelia

New Zealand Broom or Carmichaelia is a genus of 24 plant species belonging to , the legume family. All but one species are native to New Zealand. The exception, Carmichaelia exsul, is native to Lord Howe Island and must have dispersed from New Zealand. [more]

Castanospermum

Castanospermum australe (Moreton Bay Chestnut or Blackbean), the only species in the genus Castanospermum, is a in the family Fabaceae, native to the east coast of Australia in Queensland and New South Wales, and to Vanuatu and New Caledonia. [more]

Centrosema

Centrosema, the butterfly peas, are a genus of tropical American in the legume family (Fabaceae). Species include: [more]

Chamaecytisus

Brooms are a group of , semi-evergreen, and deciduous shrubs in the subfamily Faboideae of the legume family Fabaceae, mainly in the three genera Chamaecytisus, Cytisus and Genista, but also in five other small genera (see box, right). All genera in this group are from the tribe Genisteae (syn. Cytiseae). These genera are all closely related and share similar characteristics of dense, slender green stems and very small leaves, which are adaptations to dry growing conditions. Most of the species have yellow flowers, but a few have white, orange, red, pink or purple flowers. [more]

Chapmannia

Chapmannia is a genus of in the Fabaceae family. It contains the following species: [more]

Chorizema

Chorizema is a genus of the family Fabaceae. [more]

Christia

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Cicer

Cicer is a genus of the family Fabaceae. Its native distribution is across the Middle East and Asia. Its best known and only domesticated member is Cicer arietinum, the species which includes the Chickpea, or Garbanzo bean, and Chana dal. [more]

Cladrastis

Cladrastis (Yellowwood) is a genus of seven species of in the family Fabaceae, six native to eastern Asia, and one to southeastern North America. [more]

Clianthus

Clianthus, commonly known as Kakabeak (Kowhai ngutukaka in ), is a plant genus comprising two species of woody legume shrubs native to New Zealand. They have striking clusters of red flowers which resemble the beak of the Kaka, a New Zealand parrot. The plants are also known as Parrot's Beak, Parrot's Bill and Lobster Claw. There is also a variety with white to creamy colored flowers. [more]

Clitoria

Climbing or erect herbs or shrubs, rarely trees. Leaf mostly pinnately 3-9-foliolate; stipels and stipules present. Inflorescence racemose or axillary solitary or paired. Bracts stipule-like; bracteoles large. Calyx 5 toothed, 2 upper teeth subconnate. Corolla white, red or blue. Vexillum without appendages, larger than other petals. Stamens monadelphous or diadelphous, 9+1, vexillary stamen free; anthers uniform or 5 dorsifixed alternating with 5 subbasifixed. Ovary stipitate, 2-many ovuled, style more or less flattened, bearded inside, stigma terminal. Fruit linear-oblong, compressed or turgid.[5] [more]

Cologania

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Colutea

Colutea is a of about 25 species of deciduous flowering shrubs from 2-5 m tall, native to southern Europe, north Africa and southwest Asia. The leaves are pinnate and light green to glaucous grey-green. The flowers are yellow to orange pea shaped and produced in racemes throughout the summer. These are followed by the attractive inflated seed pods which change from pale green to red or copper in color. [more]

Coronilla

A Genus in the Kingdom Animalia.[6] [more]

Coursetia

Coursetia is a large genus of perennial herbs and shrubs native to the that belongs to the family Fabaceae. [more]

Crotalaria

Herbs or shrubs. Leaf simple or palmately trifoliolate or rarely up to 7-foliolate, generally stipulate. Inflorescence a raceme, terminal or leaf opposed. Bracts and bracteoles small or absent. Calyx teeth linear, lanceolate, subequal, free or the upper 2 fused, forming a lip. Vexillum orbicular, rarely ovate. Wing shorter than the standard. Keel incurved, beaked. Stamens monadelphous, anthers dimorphic. Ovary generally sessile, 2-many ovuled, style incurved, bearded above, stigma small, rarely bilobed. Fruit sessile or stipitate, globose or linear-oblong, turgid or inflated, 2-many seeded, continuous within.[7] [more]

Cullen

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Cyamopsis

Cyamopsis is a genus of the family . Its species are distributed across Africa, Asia and the Pacific. [more]

Cyclopia

A Genus in the Kingdom Plantae. [more]

Dahlstedtia

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Dalbergia

Trees and shrubs. Leaves imparipinnate rarely unifoliolate, lateral leaflets alternate, exstipellate. Inflorescence a terminal or axillary cyme or panicle. Bract and bracteoles small. Calyx campanulate, teeth unequal. Vexillum ovate or orbicular. Keel petals united at the tip. Stamens 9 or 10, monadelphous or diadelphous. Ovary stipitate, ovules 1 to few, style incurved, glabrous, stigma capitate. Fruit samaroid, indehiscent, not winged, 1-4-seeded. Seed reniform, compressed.[8] [more]

Dalea

Dalea, commonly known as Prairie Clover, is a of plants in the pea family Fabaceae. [more]

Daviesia

Daviesia is a of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae that are native to Australia. The genus is named in honour of Hugh Davies, a Welsh botanist. [more]

Desmodium

Herbs, undershrubs or shrubs, prostrate to erect. Leaf 1-5-foliolate, leaflets petiolulate, stipels 1 in lateral and 2 in terminal leaflet; stipules free or united, striate and ciliate. Inflorescence terminal or axillary, raceme or panicle or subumbellate. Bract striate and pubescent. Calyx 2-lipped, the upper lobe bifid, the lower 3 toothed or the calyx equally 5-lobed. Corolla exceeding the calyx. Stamens monadelphous or diadelphous, 9+1, anthers uniform. Ovary sessile or stipitate, ovules 2 to many. Fruit sessile or stipitate, transversely jointed, articles variously shaped, glabrous to densely pubescent, hairs straight or hooked.[9] [more]

Dillwynia

Dillwynia is a plant of the family Fabaceae. They are endemic to Australia, occurring in all states except the Northern Territory. [more]

Dioclea

Dioclea is a genus of in the pea family, Fabaceae, that is native to the Americas. The seeds of these legumes are buoyant drift seeds, and are dispersed by rivers. [more]

Dipogon

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Dipteryx

Dipteryx is a of nine species of shrubs and trees in the subfamily Faboideae of the pea family Fabaceae, native to South and Central America and the Caribbean. [more]

Ebenopsis

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Erinacea

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Erythrina

Trees, shrubs or undershrubs; branches often prickly. Leaf pinnately trifoliolate; stipels glandular; stipules small. Inflorescence axillary or terminal racemes, flowers usually clustered, scarlet, showy. Calyx with an oblique mouth, splitting down to the base or campanulate, bilabiate. Vexillum much longer than the wing and the keel. Stamens mono or diadelphous, vexillary stamen free nearly to the base or connate with others, anthers uniform. Ovary stipitate, many-ovuled, style incurved, stigma small, terminal. Fruit stipitate, torulose, falcate.[10] [more]

Eutaxia

Eutaxia is a genus of the family . They are native to Australia. Most are endemic to the Southwest Botanical Province of Western Australia, but a few are distributed throughout mainland Australia. [more]

Eysenhardtia

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Galactia

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Galega

Galega officinalis, commonly known as goat's rue, French lilac, Italian fitch or professor-weed, is an herbaceous plant in the subfamily. It is native to the Middle East, but it has been naturalised in Europe, western Asia, and western Pakistan. The plant has been extensively cultivated as a forage crop, an ornamental, a bee plant and as green manure. Its name derives from gale (milk) and ega (to bring on), as Galega has been used as a galactogogue in small domestic animals (hence the name "Goat's rue"). Galega bicolor is a synonym. It is a hardy perennial that blooms in the summer months. [more]

Gastrolobium

Gastrolobium is a of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae. There are over 100 species in this genus, and all but two are native to the south west region of Western Australia. [more]

Genista

Genista is a genus of which includes many species of broom. Many of these brooms are notorious as noxious weeds. [more]

Genistidium

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Gliricidia

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Glycine

Perennial climbing or erect annual herb. Leaf trifoliolate; stipules and stipels present. Inflorescence racemose or paniculate, sometimes flowers fascicled or solitary. Calyx 2-lipped, the upper lip composed of 2 almost united sepals, the lower lip of 3 sepals. Vexillum slightly auriculate at the base, glabrous. Stamens monadelphous, sometimes the vexillary stamen becoming free with age, anthers uniform. Ovary many ovuled, style glabrous, stigma terminal. Fruit linear or oblong, straight or falcate, more or less septate between seeds. Seed with short lateral hilum, with a small scale-like aril.[11] [more]

Glycyrrhiza

Glycyrrhiza is a genus of about 18 accepted species in the family (Leguminosae), with a subcosmopolitan distribution in Asia, Australia, Europe, and the Americas. [more]

Gompholobium

Gompholobium is a genus in the pea family, , subfamily Faboideae. The genus is endemic to Australia. [more]

Goodia

Goodia is a in the pea family, Fabaceae. The genus consists of two species, both native to Australia: [more]

Halimodendron

Halimodendron is a monotypic genus of containing the single species Halimodendron halodendron, which is known by several common names, including common salt tree and Russian salt tree. It is native to Russia and southern Asia, but it can be found on other continents where it is an introduced species, and one that is often a noxious weed. This is a deciduous spiny shrub sprawling to a few meters in maximum width and up to three meters tall. Stems branch from the base and bear clusters of about four leaflets on sharp spurs. The ends of branches narrow to spines. Flowers also appear at the ends of spurs in clusters of two to four pink pealike blossoms each one to two centimeters wide. The fruit is a black woody inflated pod about 2 centimeters long containing legume seeds. The plant has a deep and wide root system, with the lateral roots sending up new shoots. In this manner the plant forms extensive thickets. When introduced to an area of suitable climate, such as California where it is a known weed, it can invade cultivated land and spread relatively quickly. It is tolerant of saline soils. [more]

Hardenbergia

Hardenbergia is a small of leguminous vines from Australia. The genus was named in honour of Franziska Countess von Hardenberg, by English botanist George Bentham, in 1837. [more]

Hedysarum

Annual or perennial herbs. Leaf imparipinnate, leaflets entire; stipels absent; stipules free or connate. Inflorescence a peduncled raceme or head. Bracts small, bracteoles below the calyx present. Calyx teeth subequal. Corolla pink, purplish, yellow or whitish. Vexillum longer than the wings; keel longer or rarely shorter than the wings, obtuse. Stamens diadelphous, 9+1, anthers uniform. Ovary 2-8-ovuled. Fruit a lomentum, segments glabrous, pubescent, bristly or spiny.[12] [more]

Hippocrepis

Hippocrepis is a of ornamental plants in the family Fabaceae. [more]

Hovea

Hovea (Purple pea; Phusicarpos Poir.) is a genus of perennial shrubs which are native to Australia. Species from this genus are occasionally cultivated as ornamental plants. [more]

Indigofera

Shrubs or herbs, generally pubescent, hairs medifixed appressed, sometimes mixed with basifixed hairs. Leaves pinnate or imparipinnate or palmately trifoliolate or unifoliolate or simple; leaflets entire; stipules present. Inflorescence an axillary raceme or spike or solitary axillary. Bract generally caducous, bracteoles absent. Calyx lobes or teeth subequal or lowermost longer. Vexillum sessile or clawed. Wing slightly cohering with the keel. Keel gibbous on each side and often spurred. Stamens 9+1, diadelphous, anthers uniform, apiculate. Ovary with numerous or 1 to 2 ovules, style glabrous, stigma capitate, often penicillate. Fruit linear or globose, terete, 4-3-seeded or compressed; septate between the seeds. Seeds globose to cylindric, truncate, compressed or quadrate.[13] [more]

Isotropis

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Jacksonia

Jacksonia is a of leafless broom-like shrub in the flowering plant family Fabaceae. Endemic to Australia, they occur in a range of habitats in all Australian states except South Australia. [more]

Kennedia

Kennedia is a genus of comprising 16 species, all native to Australia. They are evergreen climbing plants with woody stems. Thet usually have trifoliate leaves and pea-type flowers of various colors from pink to dark red and yellow to black. The genus was named after John Kennedy, a nurseryman from London. [more]

Kummerowia

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Lablab

The Hyacinth Bean (Lablab purpureus, Dolichos lablab L., Dolichos purpureus L., Lablab niger Medikus, Lablab lablab (L.) Lyons, Vigna aristata Piper, and Lablab vulgaris, L.) Savi. ), also called Indian Bean, Egyptian Bean or d?u ván (Vietnamese), is a species of bean in the family Fabaceae that is widespread as a food crop throughout the tropics, especially in Africa, India and Indonesia. A traditional food plant in Africa, this little-known vegetable has potential to improve nutrition, boost food security, foster rural development and support sustainable landcare. [more]

Laburnocytisus

+Laburnocytisus 'Adamii' (also known as Adam's laburnum or broom laburnum) is a curiosity; a small tree which is a graft-chimaera between two species, a laburnum, Laburnum anagyroides, and a broom, Chamaecytisus purpureus (syn. Cytisus purpureus), which bears some shoots typical of the one species, some of the other, and some which are a peculiar mixture of both "parents". [more]

Laburnum

Lebeckia

Lebeckia is a genus of in the Fabaceae family. It contains the following species: [more]

Lespedeza

Shrubs or undershrubs, branches pubescent. Leaf pinnately trifoliolate or unifoliolate, leaflets entire, stipules free. Inflorescence raceme, panicle or flowers fasciculate. Bract small, 2 bracteoles at the tip of the pedicel. Calyx teeth subequal or 2 upper teeth connate. Keel straight, obtuse or truncate. Stamens diadelphous, 9+1, anthers uniform. Ovary unifoliolate. Fruit ovate or orbicular, compressed, indehiscent.[14] [more]

Lessertia

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Lonchocarpus

Lonchocarpus is a genus in the legume family (Fabaceae). The species are called lancepods due to their fruit resembling an ornate lance tip or a few beads on a string. [more]

Lotononis

Annual or perennial herbs. Leaf palmately trifoliolate, rarely unifoliolate, stipules minute or foliaceous, solitary or in pairs. Inflorescence racemose or subumbellate, 1-many flowered, terminal or leaf-opposed. Calyx 5-lobed, the upper 4 united higher up than the lower lobe. Vexillum orbicular to oblong. Keel incurved. Stamens monadelphous, tube split along the upper side, 4 with long and 6 with short anthers. Ovary sessile, many-ovuled, style incurved, stigma terminal. Fruit oblong, 2-valved, many-seeded.[15] [more]

Lotus

Annual or perennial, herbs or semishrubs. Leaf pinnately compound; leaflets 5, 3 at the apex and 2 at the base resembling stipules, or the basal leaflets absent, entire. Stipules absent or represented by glands or minute, deciduous. Inflorescence an axillary pedunculate or almost sessile umbel, subtended by 1-3 leafy bracts or flower solitary axillary. Calyx tubular, bilabiate. Corolla yellow, pinkish, red, purple or white, free from stamens, keel pointed or beaked. Stamens diadelphous, 9+1, alternate filaments dilated at the apex. Fruit dehiscent, generally many seeded.[16] [more]

Lupinus

Herbs or shrubs. Leaf generally palmately multifoliolate; stipules adnate.. Inflorescence a terminal raceme. Bract caducous, bracteoles mostly persistent. Calyx 2-lipped. Vexillum orbicular or broadly ovate. Wing petals connate at the apex. Keel beaked. Stamens monadelphous, anthers alternately long and short. Ovary sessile, 2-many ovuled, style incurved, glabrous or with a ring of hairs beneath the terminal stigma. Fruit compressed, 2-valved, often constricted between the seeds. Seed estrophiolate.[17] [more]

Maackia

Maackia is a genus of 11 species of in the family Fabaceae, native to eastern Asia. [more]

Macroptilium

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Macrotyloma

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Medicago

Annual or perennial herbs. Leaf pinnately trifoliolate, leaflets toothed; stipules adnate. Inflorescence a pedunculate axillary raceme. Flowers pedicellate and bracteate. Calyx 5-toothed. Corolla mostly yellow, or less often purplish. Keel shorter than the wings. Stamens diadelphous, 9+1, anthers uniform. Fruit spirally coiled or rarely falcate, sometimes provided with tubercles or spines at the margin, mostly indehiscent, 1-many seeded.[18] [more]

Melilotus

Melilot (Melilotus), also known as Sweet Clover, is a genus in the family . Members are known as common grassland plants and as weeds of cultivated ground. Originally from Europe and Asia, it is now found worldwide. [more]

Millettia

Trees, shrubs or woody climbers. Leaf imparipinnately compound; leaflets mostly stipellate and opposite; stipules small. Inflorescence a terminal raceme or panicle; flowers white, rose or purple. Bracts and bracteoles often deciduous before flowering. Calyx teeth almost absent or short, Vexillum large, nude or callose above the claw or rarely appendaged with auricles. Wings free from the keel. Keel incurved, obtuse. Stamens mono or diadelphous, vexillary stamen free at the base but more or less connate above or quite free, anthers uniform. Ovary sessile or rarely stipitate, style glabrous, stigma terminal; ovules numerous. Annular disk surrounding the ovary mostly present. Fruit compressed, flat or thick or woody, 2-valved or tardily dehiscent. Seed orbicular or reniform, estrophiolate.[19] [more]

Mirbelia

Mirbelia is the botanical name of a plant belonging to the Fabaceae family. It is endemic to Australia, occurring in every mainland state except South Australia. [more]

Mucuna

Climbing shrubs or herbs, young branches tomentose. Leaf pinnately trifoliolate, stipules deciduous; leaflets usually stipellate. Inflorescence racemose, fasciculate or subcorymbose. Flower purple, red or greenish yellow. Bracts caducous or small. Upper 2 teeth of calyx united, lower teeth longer. Vexillum shorter than the keel, auriculate at the base. Keel only slightly exceeding the wings, incurved, usually beaked. Stamens diadelphous, 9+1, the vexillary stamen free; alternate anthers longer. Ovary sessile, villous, ovules few, style thin, stigma terminal. Fruit usually clothed with stinging hairs, 2-valved, septate or filled between the seeds.[20] [more]

Mundulea

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Myrospermum

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Nissolia

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Notospartium

Notospartium is a genus of in the Fabaceae family. It contains the following species: [more]

Onobrychis

Annual or perennial, herbs or undershrubs. Leaf imparipinnate, leaflets entire; stipules free or connate. Inflorescence an axillary pedunculate raceme. Bracts present, bracteoles present or absent. Calyx teeth unequal, linear or suhulate. Corolla pink, purple, yellow or white, often with dark veins. Wing shorter than the vexillum and the keel; keel truncate, obtuse, equal to or longer than the vexillum. Stamens diadelphous, 9+1, anthers uniform. Ovary 1-2-ovuled. Fruit indehiscent, compressed, suborbicular, glabrous or pilose, lanate, with or without hooks, spines or teeth on the crest and disc; 1-2-seeded.[21] [more]

Ononis

Annual or perennial herbs or undershrubs, usually pubescent, hairs eglandular or glandular. Leaf 1-3-foliolate, rarely imparipinnately compound, more than 2 lateral pairs of leaflets; leaflets generally toothed; stipules mostly adnate to the petiole. Flowers axillary, 1-3, sessile or long-peduncled, or forming terminal racemes or spikes. Bracts and bracteoles minute or O. Calyx with 5 subequal teeth. Vexillum with a short claw. Keel beaked. Stamens monadelphous, alternate filaments dilated at the apex, anthers dimorphous. Ovary shortly stipitate, 2 or more ovuled, style glabrous, stigma terminal or subterminal. Fruit linear to oblong, inflated or torulose, seeds few to numerous, reniform.[22] [more]

Orbexilum

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Ornithopus

Ornithopus is a genus of in the family Fabaceae. [more]

Otholobium

Otholobium is a genus of in the Fabaceae family. It contains the following species: [more]

Oxylobium

Oxylobium , also known as Shaggy Pea, is a of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae . The genus is native to Australia. Species include: [more]

Oxyrhynchus

A genus in the Kingdom Animalia. [more]

Oxytropis

Herbs or undershrubs. Leaf imparipinnate, leaflets entire, stipels absent; stipules adnate to the petiole or free. Inflorescence an axillary raceme or spike. Bracts often small. Bracteoles minute or absent. Calyx gamosepalous, teeth sub-equal. Vexillum ovate or oblong. Keel mucronate. Stamens diadelphous, 9+1, vexillary stamen free. Ovary sessile or stipitate, style straight or more often curved, not barbate, stigma terminal. Fruit turgid, the seed bearing suture generally intruded, partly dividing the fruit. Seeds reniform, without strophiole.[23] [more]

Pachyrhizus

Parochetus

Parochetus is a genus of herbs. [more]

Pediomelum

Pediomelum is a genus of known as Indian breadroots. These are glandular perennial plants with palmately-arranged leaves. They have a main erect stem with inflorescences of blue or purple flowers and produce hairy legume pods containing beanlike seeds. Some species have woody roots while others have starchy tuber-like roots which can be eaten like tuber vegetables such as potatoes or made into flour. Indian breadroots are native to North America. Many species have synonymy with genus Psoralea. [more]

Petalostemum

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Peteria

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Petteria

Brooms are a group of , semi-evergreen, and deciduous shrubs in the subfamily Faboideae of the legume family Fabaceae, mainly in the three genera Chamaecytisus, Cytisus and Genista, but also in five other small genera (see box, right). All genera in this group are from the tribe Genisteae (syn. Cytiseae). These genera are all closely related and share similar characteristics of dense, slender green stems and very small leaves, which are adaptations to dry growing conditions. Most of the species have yellow flowers, but a few have white, orange, red, pink or purple flowers. [more]

Phaseolus

A genus in the Kingdom Animalia. [more]

Philenoptera

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Phyllota

Phyllota is an genus from the family Fabaceae, a biological grouping of flowering plants. [more]

Piptanthus

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Piscidia

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Platylobium

Platylobium is a of shrubs in the Fabaceae family. Native to south eastern Australia, they occur in a range of habitats of the coastal regions. The genus was first described by James Edward Smith, and is closely allied to another genera within the bossiaeeae grouping, Bossiaea. [more]

Podalyria

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Podolobium

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Pomaria

The name Pomaria can refer to: [more]

Pongamia

Pongamia is a genus of in the Fabaceae family. It contains the following species: [more]

Pseudarthria

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Psophocarpus

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Psoralea

Herbs or undershrubs, punctate with black, brown or pellucid glands. Leaf 1-3 or more foliolate, leaflets entire; stipules present. Inflorescence capitate, spicate, subracemose or fasciculate. Bracts membranous, bracteoles absent. Calyx lobes subequal or the lower lobes larger. Petals all clawed, keel incurved, obtuse. Stamens diadelphous 9+1 or monadelphous, vexillary stamen free or more or less connate with others; anthers uniform or slightly dimorphous. Ovary sessile or stipitate, 1-ovuled, style incurved, Stigma terminal. Fruit ovate, indehiscent, 1-seeded.[24] [more]

Psoralidium

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Psorothamnus

Psorothamnus is a genus of plants in the . These are shrubs and small trees. Many are known by the general common name indigo bush. Some are referred to as daleas, as this genus was once included in genus Dalea. These are generally thorny, thickly branched, strongly-scented bushes. Most species bear lupinlike raceme inflorescences of bright purple legume flowers and gland-rich pods. Psorothamnus species are native to the southwestern United States and northern Mexico. [more]

Pterocarpus

Pterocarpus is a genus of trees in the family Fabaceae, most of which yield valuable timber traded as padauk (or padouk); other common names are mukwa or narra. The scientific name is Latinized Ancient Greek and means "wing fruit", referring to the unusual shape of the seed pods in this genus. [more]

Pueraria

Pueraria is a genus of 15–20 species of plants native to . [more]

Pultenaea

Pultenaea is a of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae that are native to Australia. The genus is named in honour of Richard Pulteney, an English botanist. [more]

Rafnia

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Retama

Brooms are a group of , semi-evergreen, and deciduous shrubs in the subfamily Faboideae of the legume family Fabaceae, mainly in the three genera Chamaecytisus, Cytisus and Genista, but also in five other small genera (see box, right). All genera in this group are from the tribe Genisteae (syn. Cytiseae). These genera are all closely related and share similar characteristics of dense, slender green stems and very small leaves, which are adaptations to dry growing conditions. Most of the species have yellow flowers, but a few have white, orange, red, pink or purple flowers. [more]

Rhynchosia

Climbing, prostrate or sometimes erect herbs or subshrubs. Leaf pinnately trifoliolate; leaflets conspicuously gland-dotted below, stipules present, stipels small. Inflorescence axillary or terminal; racemose or paniculate. Bracts present, bracteoles absent. Calyx lobes unequal, upper 2 jointed. Vexillum with small auricles, pubescent or glabrous. Stamens diadelphous, 9+1, vexillary stamen free, anthers uniform. Ovary 1-2-ovuled, style pubescent below, incurved, stigma terminal. Fruit oblong, compressed, 1-2-seeded.[25] [more]

Robinia

Trees or shrubs, sometimes provided with glandular hairs. Leaf imparipinnate, leaflets entire, often stipellate; stipules sometimes spinescent. Inflorescence an axillary raceme, flowers white or rose-purple. Bract caducous; bracteoles absent. Calyx teeth short broad, upper two subconnate. Vexillum large, wings free, keel incurved, obtuse. Stamens mono or diadelphous, vexillary stamen free at the base, connate in the middle into a closed tube or at length free; anthers uniform or dimorphic. Ovary stipitate, many ovuled, style hairy at the apex, stigma terminal. Fruit linear, flat, narrowly winged along the upper suture, 2-valved, continuous. Seeds reniform, not strophiolate.[26] [more]

Scorpiurus

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Sesbania

Trees, shrubs or herbs. Leaf paripinnate, leaflets entire, stipels present or absent; stipules caducous. Inflorescence an axillary raceme. Pedicel present; bract and bracteoles mostly caducous. Calyx tube truncate or lobed or toothed, teeth subequal, shorter than the tube. Corolla glabrous. Stamens 9+1, vexillary stamen free, anthers uniform. Ovary often stipitate, ovules numerous, style in-curved, stigma capitate. Fruit long, dehiscent, transversely septate, 8-50-seeded.[27] [more]

Sophora

Perennial herbs, shrubs or trees. Leaves imparipinnate; stipules minute or absent. Inflorescence a many flowered terminal racemes or panicle. Bracts linear, minute or absent. Calyx campanulate, teeth five, unequal, shortly triangular. Corolla cream or yellow, vexillum somewhat longer than the wings and keel. Stamens free or connate at the base. Ovary shortly stipitate, ovules many, style incurved, stigma terminal. Fruit a moniliform lomentum.[28] [more]

Spartium

Spanish Broom (Spartium junceum, Genista juncea), also known as Weaver's Broom, is a perennial, leguminous shrub native to the Mediterranean region in southern Europe, southwest Asia and northwest Africa, where it is found in sunny sites, usually on dry, sandy soils. It is the sole species in the genus Spartium, but is closely related to the other brooms in the genera Cytisus and Genista. [more]

Sphaerolobium

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Sphaerophysa

Sphaerophysa is a genus of in the Balitoridae family. It contains the following species: [more]

Strongylodon

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Strophostyles

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Stylosanthes

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Styphnolobium

A Genus in the Kingdom Plantae. [more]

Swainsona

Swainsona is a large genus of native to Australasia. There are 85 species, all but one of which is endemic to Australia; the exception, S. novae-zelandiae, occurs only in New Zealand. [more]

Templetonia

Templetonia is a of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae. They are native to Australia. The genus is named in honour of John Templeton, an Irish naturalist and botanist. [more]

Tephrosia

Herbs, undershrubs or shrubs. Leaf mostly imparipinnate, leaflets rarely 3-1, generally more; entire, exstipellate; stipules of various types. Inflorescence a terminal or leaf-opposed raceme or flowers in the axils of the upper leaves. Bract present, bracteoles absent. Calyx teeth or lobes subequal or the upper two united. Vexillum pilose externally. Wings slightly adherent to the keel. Stamens 10, monadelphous or diadelphous, then the vexillary stamen quite free, anthers uniform. Ovary sessile, generally many ovuled, style incurved, glabrous or pilose, stigma nude or penicillate. Fruit compressed, linear, 2-valved, continuous or obscurely septate between the seeds.[29] [more]

Thermopsis

Thermopsis is a genus of 8 to 23 species of , native to temperate North America and east Asia. They are herbaceous perennials and are known as goldenbanners. [more]

Tipuana

Tipuana belongs to subfamily of the legume family Fabaceae. It has sessile leaves, and produces samara (fruit). [more]

Trifolium

Annual or perennial herbs. Leaf trifoliolate, rarely (not in the local species) digitately 5-9-foliolate, leaflets mostly dentate; stipules adnate to petiole. Inflorescence a sessile or pedunculate head or short raceme or solitary. Bracts present or absent. Calyx variable, accrescent or inflated, teeth equal or unequal. Corolla pink, red to purple, white or yellow, persistent. Stamens diadelphous, 9+1, vexillary stamens free, anthers uniform. Ovary with few ovules, style incurved, stigma capitate. Fruit usually included in calyx, often indehiscent, 1-2 (-12) -seeded.[30] [more]

Trigonella

A genus in the Kingdom Animalia. [more]

Ulex

Gorse, furze, furse or whin (Ulex) is a of about 20 species of spiny evergreen shrubs in the subfamily Faboideae of the pea family Fabaceae, native to western Europe and northwest Africa, with the majority of species in Iberia. [more]

Vigna

Climbing, prostrate or erect herbs or subshrubs, rarely small shrubs. Leaves pinnately trifoliolate; stipules bilobed or spurred at the base or not spurred, stipels generally present. Inflorescence axillary or terminal, falsely racemose or flowers in dense 1-many flowered subumbellate clusters; rachis usually thickened and glandular at the point of insertion of pedicels; bracts and bracteoles ± deciduous. Calyx 5-lobed, 2-lipped; upper lip of 2 lobes completely or partly united, lower lip 3-lobed. Vexillum with inflexed auricles and 2-4 appendages or rarely appendages absent; keel truncate, obtuse or beaked, sometimes the beak incurved through up to 360°. Stamens diadelphous 9+1, anthers uniform. Ovary 3-many ovuled; style with tenuous lower part obsolete or quite long, filiform or flattened, upper part thickened and cartilaginous, straight or curved, upper portion barbate or hirsute on inner side, sometimes produced beyond the stigma to form a short to long subulate or rarely flattened or capitate beak; stigma completely lateral, oblique or rarely ± terminal. Pod linear or linear oblong, cylindrical or flattened, straight or curved. Seeds mostly reniform or quadrate; aril obsolete to well developed, often 3-pronged.[31] [more]

Viminaria

Viminaria juncea is the single species in the genus Viminaria endemic to . The genus is in the family Fabaceae. It is colloquially known as native broom after its resemblance to the related European Broom plants. [more]

Virgilia

A Genus in the Kingdom Plantae. [more]

Wisteria

Climbing shrubs. Leaf imparipinnate, leaflets entire, often stipellate; stipules small. Inflorescence a terminal, pendulous raceme, flowers blue or white. Bract caducous, bracteoles absent. Upper 2 calyx teeth short and subconnate, lower generally longer. Vexillum with 2 appendages above the claw. Wing free from the keel. Keel incurved, obtuse. Stamens mono or diadelphous, vexillary stamen free or connate with others in the middle, anthers uniform. Ovary stipitate, style glabrous, stigma terminal, small, ovules numerous. Fruit torulose, continuous inside. Seed reniform, estrophiolate.[32] [more]

Zornia

Annual or perennial herbs. Leaf palmately 2 or 4-foliolate, leaflets glandular-punctate; stipules produced below the base. Inflorescence spicate, terminal or axillary. Bracts paired, enclosing the sessile flower bud. Calyx hyaline, 2 upper lobes connate, 2 lateral lobes smaller, lower as long as the upper. Corolla papilionaceous. Stamens monadelphous, anthers alternately long and short. Ovary sessile, ovules numerous. Fruit compressed, segmented, segments smooth or echi¬nate, indehiscent.[33] [more]

At least 146 species and subspecies belong to the Genus Zornia.

More info about the Genus Zornia may be found here.

References

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  1. ^ "Fabaceae Lindl., nom. cons. subfam. Faboideae tribe Sesbanieae". Germplasm Resources Information Network. United States Department of Agriculture. 2007-04-01. http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/genus.pl?11097. Retrieved on 2009-04-05. 
  2. ^ Kennedya DC. Australian Plant Name Index.

Footnotes

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  1. "Aeschynomene". in Flora of Pakistan Page 338. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org.
  2. "Arachis". in Flora of Pakistan Page 356.. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org.
  3. "Astragalus". in Flora of Pakistan page 121. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org.
  4. "Caragana". in Flora of Pakistan Page 97. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org.
  5. "Clitoria". in Flora of Pakistan Page 254. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org.
  6. http://bugguide.net/index.php?q=search&keys=Coronilla&search=Search
  7. "Crotalaria". in Flora of Pakistan Page 40.. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org.
  8. "Dalbergia". in Flora of Pakistan Page 56.. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org.
  9. "Desmodium". in Flora of Pakistan Page 346. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org.
  10. "Erythrina". in Flora of Pakistan Page 235. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org.
  11. "Glycine". in Flora of Pakistan Page 255. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org.
  12. "Hedysarum". in Flora of Pakistan Page 333.. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org.
  13. "Indigofera". in Flora of Pakistan Page 65. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org.
  14. "Lespedeza". in Flora of Pakistan Page 357. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org.
  15. "Lotononis". in Flora of Pakistan Page 32. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org.
  16. "Lotus". in Flora of Pakistan Page 311. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org.
  17. "Lupinus". in Flora of Pakistan Page 33.. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org.
  18. "Medicago". in Flora of Pakistan Page 301. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org.
  19. "Millettia". in Flora of Pakistan Page 51. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org.
  20. "Mucuna". in Flora of Pakistan Page 237. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org.
  21. "Onobrychis". in Flora of Pakistan Page 326. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org.
  22. "Ononis". in Flora of Pakistan Page 282. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org.
  23. "Oxytropis". in Flora of Pakistan Page 107. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org.
  24. "Psoralea". in Flora of Pakistan Page 215. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org.
  25. "Rhynchosia". in Flora of Pakistan Page 226. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org.
  26. "Robinia". in Flora of Pakistan Page 51. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org.
  27. "Sesbania". in Flora of Pakistan Page 87. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org.
  28. "Sophora". in Flora of Pakistan Page 23. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org.
  29. "Tephrosia". in Flora of Pakistan Page 58. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org.
  30. "Trifolium". in Flora of Pakistan Page 284. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org.
  31. "Vigna". in Flora of Pakistan Page 242. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org.
  32. "Wisteria". in Flora of Pakistan Page 54. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org.
  33. "Zornia". in Flora of Pakistan Page 355. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org.
  1. The type genus, Faba, is a synonym of Vicia, and is listed here as Vicia.
  2. The genus Kennedya is a synonym of Kennedia, and is listed here as Kennedia.[1]

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