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Papilionoideae

(Subfamily)

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Taxonomy

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The Subfamily Papilionoideae is a member of the Family Leguminosae. Here is the complete "parentage" of Papilionoideae:

The Subfamily Papilionoideae is further organized into finer groupings including:

Genera

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Abrus

Abrus is a genus of flowering plants in the pea family, Fabaceae and the only genus found in the Tribe Abreae. 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

Adenocarpus is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae. It belongs to the sub family Faboideae. [more]

Adesmia

Adesmia is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae. It belongs to the sub family Faboideae and is the only genus found in the Tribe Adesmieae. Species in this genus include Adesmia balsamica and Adesmia resinosa. [more]

Aeschynomene

Aeschynomene is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae. They are known commonly as jointvetches. These legumes are most common in warm regions and many species are aquatic. There are over 100 species. [more]

Aldina

Aldina is a genus of plant from Venezuelan Amazonia, of the family Fabaceae. A new species from the Amazonian lowland forest. Located in lowland humid forests. [more]

Alhagi

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

Alysicarpus

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

Ammopiptanthus

Ammopiptanthus is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae. It belongs to the sub family Faboideae. [more]

Amorpha

Amorpha is a genus of plants in the pea family, Fabaceae. 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]

Amphithalea

Amphithalea is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae. It belongs to the sub family Faboideae. [more]

Anagyris

Anagyris is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae. It belongs to the sub family Faboideae. [more]

Andira

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

Anthyllis

Anthyllis is a genus of plants in the family Fabaceae. 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]

Antopetitia

Antopetitia is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae. It belongs to the sub family Faboideae. [more]

Apios

Apios is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae. It belongs to the sub family Faboideae. [more]

Arachis

Arachis is a genus of about 70 species of annual and perennial flowering plants in the pea family (Fabaceae), native to South America. At least one species, the peanut (Arachis hypogaea), is a major food crop species of global importance; some of the other species are cultivated for food to a small extent in South America. Other species such as A. pintoi are cultivated worldwide as forage and soil conditioner plants, with the leaves providing high-protein feed for grazing livestock and a nitrogen source in agroforestry and permaculture systems. [more]

Argyrocytisus

Argyrocytisus is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae. It belongs to the sub family Faboideae. [more]

Argyrolobium

Argyrolobium is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae. It belongs to the sub family Faboideae. [more]

Aspalathus

Aspalathus is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae. The yellow flowers and spiny habit of some species have suggested a resemblance to Ulex europaeus, the thorny "English gorse" Accordingly "Cape Gorse" has been proposed as a common name although the resemblance is largely superficial; for instance, gorse is thorny, whereas Aspalathus species are variously spiny or unarmed. The genus belongs to the sub family Faboideae. There are over 270 species, mainly endemic to southwestern fynbos regions in South Africa, with over fifty occurring on the Cape Peninsula alone. The species Aspalathus linearis is commercially important, being farmed as the source of Rooibos tea. [more]

Astragalus

Astragalus (As-tr?-ga-lus) is a large genus of about 3,000 species of herbs and small shrubs, belonging to the legume family Fabaceae, subfamily Faboideae. The genus is native to temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere. Common names include milk-vetch (most species), locoweed (in western US, some species; although most locoweeds are not genus Astragalus but in related genera) and goat's-thorn (A. gummifer, A. tragacanthus). Some pale-flowered vetches are similar in appearance, but vetches are more vine-like. [more]

Ateleia

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

Baphia

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

Biserrula

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Bituminaria

Bituminaria is small genus of perennial from the family Fabaceae. [more]

Bocoa

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Bossiaea

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

Brongniartia

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

Brya

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Butea

Butea or Flame of the Forest is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the pea family, Fabaceae. It has two species. [more]

Cadia

Cadia is an American Christian pop band composed of long-time best friends Courtney Myers and Tori Smith. They both went to school at Christ Presbyterian Academy. Their name, Cadia, is derived from the Greek word Arcadia, meaning place of peace, symbolizing the peace found when fears, insecurities, and trials are released. [more]

Cajanus

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

Calophaca

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Camoensia

Camoensia is a genus of 2 species of in the family Fabaceae, subfamily Faboideae, native to the Gulf of Guinea, Africa. [more]

Canavalia

Canavalia is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family (Fabaceae) and comprises approximately 70-75 species of tropical vines. Members of the genus are commonly known as jack-beans. The species of Canavalia endemic to the Hawaiian Islands were named awikiwiki by the Native Hawaiians. That name means essentially "the very quick one" and comes from the Hawaiian word for "fast" that has also been appropriated into the name "Wikipedia". The genus name is derived from the Malabar word for the species, kavavali, which means "forest climber." [more]

Caragana

Caragana is a genus of about 80 species of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae, native to Asia and eastern Europe. [more]

Carmichaelia

Carmichaelia (New Zealand Broom) is a genus of 24 plant species belonging to Fabaceae, the legume family. All but one species are native to New Zealand. The exception, , 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 flowering plant in the family Fabaceae, native to the east coast of Australia in Queensland and New South Wales, and to the Pacific islands of Vanuatu and New Caledonia. [more]

Centrosema

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

Chaetocalyx

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Chesneya

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Chorizema

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

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 flowering plants 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 Maori), 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

Clitoria is a genus of flowering plants that are insect pollinated. [more]

Codariocalyx

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Colutea

Colutea is a genus of about 25 species of deciduous flowering shrubs in the legume family Fabaceae, growing 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]

Cordyla

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

Coronilla

The genus Coronilla contains Old World shrubs and herbs. [more]

Coursetia

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

Craibia

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

Crotalaria

Crotalaria is a genus of herbaceous plants and woody shrubs in the Family Fabaceae (Subfamily Faboideae) commonly know as rattlepods. Some 600 or more species of Crotalaria are described world-wide, mostly from the tropics; at least 500 species are known from Africa. Some species of Crotalaria are grown as ornamentals. The common name rattlepod or rattlebox is derived from the fact that the seeds become loose in the pod as they mature, and rattle when the pod is shaken. The name derives from the Greek, κροταλον, meaning "castanet", and is the same root as the name for the rattlesnakes (Crotalus). [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]

Cytisophyllum

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Cytisopsis

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Dalbergia

Dalbergia is a large genus of small to medium-size trees, shrubs and lianas in the pea family, Fabaceae, subfamily Faboideae. The genus has a wide distribution, native to the tropical regions of Central and South America, Africa, Madagascar and southern Asia. The size of the genus is disputed, with different authorities citing between 100-600 species; ILDIS accepts 159 species. [more]

Dalbergiella

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Dalea

Dalea is a genus of flowering plants in the pea family, Fabaceae. Members of the genus are commonly known as prairie clover or indigo bush. Its name honours English apothecary Samuel Dale (1659-1739). [more]

Daviesia

Daviesia is a genus 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]

Dendrolobium

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Derris

Derris is a climbing leguminous plant of Southeast Asia and the southwest Pacific islands, including New Guinea. Its roots contain rotenone, a strong insecticide and fish poison. [more]

Desmodium

Desmodium is a genus in the flowering plant family Fabaceae, sometimes called tick-trefoil, tick clover or beggar lice. There are dozens of species and the delimitation of the genus has shifted much over time. [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 flowering plants 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]

Diphysa

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Diplotropis

Diplotropis is a of trees (family Fabaceae) found in Brazil and parts of northern Argentina. [more]

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]

Dolichos

Dolichos or Dolichus is derived from the Ancient Greek word for "long" (). It may refer to [more]

Donia

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Dunbaria

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Ebenus

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Echinospartum

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Eremosparton

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Erinacea

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Eriosema

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

Erythrina

Erythrina () is a genus of flowering plants in the pea family, Fabaceae. It contains about 130 species, which are distributed in tropical and subtropical regions worldwide. They are trees, growing up to 30 m (98 ft) in height. The generic name is derived from the Greek word e?????? (erythros), meaning "red," referring to the flower color of certain species. [more]

Euchresta

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Eversmannia

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Flemingia

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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 genus 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 legumes which includes many species of broom. Many of these brooms are notorious as noxious weeds. Many of the species have flowers that open explosively when alighted on by an insect, the style flying through the upper seam of the keel and striking the underside of the insect, followed by a shower of pollen that coats the insect. [more]

Gliricidia

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Glycyrrhiza

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

Gompholobium

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

Gonocytisus

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Gueldenstaedtia

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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]

Harpalyce

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Hedysarum

Hedysarum (Sweetvetch) is a genus of the botanical family Fabaceae, consisting of about 309 species of annual or perennial herbs in Asia, Europe, North Africa, and North America. [more]

Hippocrepis

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

Hovea

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

Hymenocarpos

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Hymenolobium

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Hypocalyptus

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Indigofera

Indigofera is a large genus of about 700 species of flowering plants belonging to the family Fabaceae. [more]

Inocarpus

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Jacksonia

Jacksonia is a genus 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 plants 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 by ?tienne Pierre Ventenat after John Kennedy, a partner in the renowned firm of nurserymen, Lee and Kennedy of Hammersmith, London. [more]

Kotschya

Kotschya is a genus of about 30 species of in the Fabaceae family. It contains the following species: [more]

Lablab

Lablab purpureus (syn. Dolichos lablab L., Dolichos purpureus L., L. niger Medikus, L. lablab (L.) Lyons, Vigna aristata Piper, and L. vulgaris (L.) Savi), commonly known as the hyacinth bean, Indian bean, seim (Guyana and Trinidad and Tobago), Egyptian bean, njahi (in the Kikuyu language of Kenya), bulay (Tagalog), bataw (Bisaya), or d?u v?n (Vietnamese), a species of bean in the family Fabaceae, 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. It is called avarekaalu (Kannada: ????????) in Karnataka and it is very famous for its curry (avarekalu saaru), salad (avarekaalu usli), it is added for upma (avrekaalu uppittu), and for Akki rotti (flatbread made with rice flour) to make it more delicious. Sometimes the outer peel of the seed is taken out and the inner soft part is used for a variety of dishes. That form, hitakubele avarekalu, means pressed (hitaku) hyancinth bean. It is called avarai (????) or mochai (?????? - synonymous with ????) in Tamil. In western Maharashtra, especially Konkan region, these beans are grown as vaal (???). [more]

Laburnocytisus

+Laburnocytisus 'Adamii' (also known as Adam's laburnum or broom laburnum) is a horticultural curiosity; a small tree which is a graft-chimaera between two species, a laburnum, Laburnum anagyroides, and a broom, (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

Lathyrus

The genus Lathyrus consists of the sweet peas and vetchlings, flowering plants in the legume family Fabaceae. There are approximately 160 species of Lathyrus; they are native to temperate areas, with a breakdown of 52 species in Europe, 30 species in North America, 78 in Asia, 24 in tropical East Africa, and 24 in temperate South America. There are annual and perennial species which may be climbing or bushy. This genus has numerous sections, including Orobus, which was once a separate genus. [more]

Lebeckia

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

Lecointea

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

Lespedeza

Lespedeza is a genus of some 40 species (including nothospecies) of flowering plants in the pea family (Fabaceae), commonly known as bush clovers or (particularly East Asian species) Japanese clovers. The genus is native to warm temperate to subtropical regions of eastern North America, eastern and southern Asia and Australasia. [more]

Lessertia

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Liparia

The liparia or Macedonian shad (Alosa macedonica) is a species of in the Clupeidae family. It is endemic to Greece. Its natural habitat is freshwater lakes. It is threatened by habitat loss. [more]

Lonchocarpus

Lonchocarpus is a plant 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

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

Lotus

Lotus has many definitions. Depending on the context, it may refer to any of the following. [more]

Lupinus

Lupinus, commonly known as Lupins or lupines (North America), is a genus in the legume family (Fabaceae). The genus comprises about 280 species (Hughes), with major centers of diversity in South and western North America (Subgen. Platycarpos (Wats.) Kurl.), and the Andes and secondary centers in the Mediterranean region and Africa (Subgen. Lupinus). [more]

Maackia

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

Machaerium

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

Medicago

Medicago (family: Fabaceae, the pea family) is a genus of perennial flowering plant, known generally as medick or burclover. The most prominent member of the genus is alfalfa (M. sativa), an important crop. [more]

Melilotus

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

Mirbelia

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

Montigena

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Mucuna

Mucuna is a genus of around 100 accepted species of climbing vines and shrubs of the family Fabaceae, found worldwide in the woodlands of tropical areas. [more]

Myroxylon

Myroxylon is a genus of two species of Central American and South American trees in the Fabaceae (Leguminosae). The tree is well known in the western world as the source for Peru balsam and Tolu balsam. The tree is often called Quina or Balsamo. Other names include Tolu in Colombia, Quina quina in Argentina; in lumber trade, sometimes named Santos Mahogany. [more]

Nissolia

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Onobrychis

Sainfoins (Onobrychis) are Eurasian perennial herbs that have pale pink flowers and curved pods. O. viciifolia is naturalized in the British Isles and North America grasslands on calcareous soils. The Flora Europaea lists 23 species of Onobrychis. [more]

Ononis

Ononis is a large genus of perennial herbs and shrubs from the legume family Fabaceae. The members of this genus are often called restharrows as some species are arable weeds whose tough stems would stop the harrow. They are natively distributed in Europe. [more]

Orbexilum

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Oreophysa

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Ormocarpum

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

Ormosia

Ormosia is a genus of legumes (family Fabaceae). The more than 110 living species, mostly trees or large shrubs, are distributed throughout the tropical regions of the world, some extending into temperate zones, especially in East Asia. A few species are threatened by habitat destruction, while the Hainan Ormosia (O. howii) is probably extinct already. [more]

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 genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae . The genus is native to Australia. Species include: [more]

Oxytropis

Oxytropis is a genus of plants in the legume family. It is one of two genera of plants known as locoweeds, and are notorious for being toxic to grazing animals. The other locoweed genus is the closely-related Astragalus. There are about 300 species native to Eurasia and North America. Several species are native to the Arctic. These are hairy perennial plants which produce raceme inflorescences of pink, purple, white, or yellow flowers which are generally pea-like but have distinctive sharply beaked keels. The plant produces legume pods containing the seeds. [more]

Paraderris

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Parochetus

Parochetus is a genus of perennial 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]

Pericopsis

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

Petteria

Petteria is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae. It belongs to the sub family Faboideae. [more]

Phaseolus

Phaseolus (Bean, Wild Bean ) is a genus in the family Fabaceae of about fifty plant species, all native to the Americas. [more]

Phylloxylon

Phylloxylon is a genus of in the Fabaceae family. It contains the following species, all of which are found only in Madagascar: [more]

Pickeringia

Pickeringia is a monotypic genus containing only the Pickeringia montana, which is known by the common name chaparral pea. It is sometimes called Montana chaparral pea, but this plant is found only in California. It is one of very few legumes native to the chaparral habitat. Its nitrogen-fixing ability helps it thrive in rocky, sandy soil. The plant is also well-suited to a landscape of hills, slopes, and recently-burned areas; its roots spread quickly and help anchor loose soil, preventing erosion. The chaparral pea rarely sprouts from seed. More often it sends up new stems from roots growing outward from the mother plant. It forms low, dense, thorny thickets of shiny dark green leaves. In spring and summer the plant bursts into blossom, covering the thickets with bright magenta flowers. It bears pods containing peas. [more]

Pictetia

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Piptanthus

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Pisum

Pisum is a genus of the family Fabaceae, native to southwest Asia and northeast Africa. It contains one to five species, depending on taxonomic interpretation; the International Legume Database (ILDIS) accepts three species, one with two subspecies [1]: [more]

Platysepalum

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Podalyria

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Poecilanthe

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

Psoralea

Psoralea is a genus in the legume family (Fabaceae). Although most species are poisonous, the starchy roots of P. esculenta (breadroot, tipsin, or prairie turnip) and P. hypogaea are edible. [more]

Pterocarpus

Pterocarpus is a pantropical 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 Asia. Pueraria flower is used in traditional Chinese medicine to reduce reactions to alcohol consumption, and is undergoing scientific study for that use. [more]

Pultenaea

Pultenaea is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae-Faboideae that are native to Australia.Pultenaea is commonly known as ?egg and bacon?, ?golden? or ?bush peas?. [more]

Rafnia

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Retama

Retama is a genus of flowering bushes in the legume family, Fabaceae. It belongs to the broom tribe, Genisteae. Retama broom bushes are found natively in North Africa, the Levant and some parts of southern Europe. The GRIN database lists three species: Retama raetam, Retama monosperma, and Retama sphaerocarpa. The first two of those have white flowers, while the third has yellow flowers. It remains an open question in taxonomy whether the members of the Retama genus should be incorporated into the Genista genus; see Genisteae. [more]

Rhynchosia

Rhynchosia (Snoutbean) is a genus of plants in the Fabaceae family. [more]

Rhynchotropis

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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.[1] [more]

Salweenia

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Sesbania

Sesbania is a genus from the family Fabaceae with some aquatic species. Notable species include the Rattlebox (Sesbania drummondii), Spiny Sesbania (Sesbania bispinosa), and Sesbania grandiflora (an edible plant). Plants of the genus are used in alley cropping to increase nitrogen content. [more]

Smirnowia

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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.[2] [more]

Spartium

Spartium junceum (syn. Genista juncea), known as Spanish Broom or 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]

Sphaerophysa

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

Stracheya

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Streblorrhiza

Streblorrhiza speciosa was a perennial shrub endemic to Phillip Island. A species of legume in the Fabaceae family, and the sole species of this genus, it is now presumed extinct. [more]

Stylosanthes

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Swainsona

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

Swartzia

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

Tephrosia

Tephrosia is a genus of flowering plants in the pea family, Fabaceae. The generic name is derived from the Greek word tef??? (tephros), meaning "ash-colored," referring to the greyish tint given to the leaves by their dense trichomes. [more]

Teramnus

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Thermopsis

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

Trifolium

Clover (Trifolium), or trefoil, is a genus of about 300 species of plants in the leguminous pea family Fabaceae. The genus has a cosmopolitan distribution; the highest diversity is found in the temperate Northern Hemisphere, but many species also occur in South America and Africa, including at high altitudes on mountains in the tropics. They are small annual, biennial, or short-lived perennial herbaceous plants. The leaves are trifoliate (rarely 5- or 7-foliate), with stipules adnate to the leaf-stalk, and heads or dense spikes of small red, purple, white, or yellow flowers; the small, few-seeded pods are enclosed in the calyx. Other closely related genera often called clovers include Melilotus (sweet clover) and Medicago (alfalfa or 'calvary clover'). The "shamrock" of popular iconography is sometimes considered to be young clover. The scientific name derives from the Latin tres, "three", and folium, "leaf", so called from the characteristic form of the leaf, which has three leaflets (trifoliate); hence the popular name trefoil. Clovers are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera (butterfly and moth) species; see list of Lepidoptera that feed on clovers. [more]

Trigonella

Trigonella is a large genus from the family Fabaceae, with about 130 species. The best known member is the herb Fenugreek. [more]

Ulex

Gorse, furze, furse or whin (Ulex) is a genus of about 20 plant species of thorny 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]

Uraria

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Vavilovia

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Vicia

Vicia is a genus of about 140 species of flowering plants commonly known as vetches. It is in the legume family (Fabaceae). Member species are native to Europe, North America, South America, Asia and Africa. Some other genera of their subfamily Faboideae also have names containing "vetch", for example the vetchlings (Lathyrus) or the milk-vetches (Astragalus). The Broad Bean (Vicia faba) is sometimes separated in a monotypic genus Faba; although not often used today, it is of historical importance in plant taxonomy as the namesake of the order Fabales, the Fabaceae and the Faboideae. The tribe Vicieae in which the vetches are placed is named after the genus' current name. Among the closest living relatives of vetches are the lentils (Lens) and the true peas (Pisum). [more]

Vigna

The genus Vigna is in the plant family Fabaceae. The genus is named after Dominico Vigna an Italian botanist of the 17th century. Many Vigna species are cultivated for food. They include some well-known and not so well known bean species formerly included in the genus Phaseolus. Common names in this genus reflect its mixed taxonomic history as some are referred to as peas and others as beans. [more]

Virgilia

A Genus in the Kingdom Plantae. [more]

Wisteria

Wisteria (also spelled Wistaria or Wysteria) is a genus of flowering plants in the pea family, Fabaceae, that includes ten species of woody climbing vines native to the eastern United States and to China, Korea, and Japan. Aquarists refer to the species Hygrophila difformis, in the family Acanthaceae, as Water Wisteria. Some species are popular ornamental plants, especially in China and Japan. [more]

Xanthocercis

Xanthocercis is a genus in the family Fabaceae. There are two species: [more]

Zollernia

Zollernia is a genus of the family native to Central and South America. Zollernia are trees or shrubs that flower annually. [more]

Zornia

Zornia is a cosmopolitan genus of herbs from the legume family Fabaceae. [more]

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

More info about the Genus Zornia may be found here.

Footnotes

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  1. "Robinia". in Flora of Pakistan Page 51. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org.
  2. "Sophora". in Flora of Pakistan Page 23. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org.

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