Description
Family Fabaceae
The Fabaceae are herbs, vines , shrubs , trees , and lianas found in both temperate and tropical areas. They comprise one of the largest families of flowering plants , numbering 630 genera and 18,000 species. The leaves are stipulate , nearly always alternate, and range from bipinnately or palmately compound to simple . The petiole base is commonly enlarged into a pulvinus that commonly functions in orientation of the leaves (sometimes very responsively, as in the sensitive plant, Mimosa pudica). The flowers are usually bisexual , actinomorphic to zygomorphic, slightly to strongly perigynous, and commonly in racemes , spikes, or heads . The perianth commonly consists of a calyx and corolla of 5 segments each. The androecium consists of commonly 1- many stamens (most commonly 10), distinct or variously united , sometimes some of them reduced to staminodes. The pistil is simple, often stipitate , comprising a single style and stigma, and a superior ovary with one locule containing 2-many marginal ovules. The fruit is usually a legume, sometimes a samara, loment, follicle, indehiscent pod, achene, drupe, or berry. The seeds often have a hard coat with hourglass-shaped cells , and sometimes bear a u-shaped line called a pleurogram. [Carr]
Taxonomy
- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- Kingdom:
Plantae
()
- Haeckel, 1866
- Plants
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
()
- Cavalier-Smith, 1981
- Phylum:
Magnoliophyta
()
- Sinnott, 1935 Ex Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Flowering Plants
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
()
- Infraphylum:
Radiatopses
()
- Kenrick & Crane, 1997
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
()
- Brongniart, 1843
- Dicotyledons
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
(
- Infraphylum:
Radiatopses
(
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
(
- Phylum:
Magnoliophyta
(
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
(
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
Similar Species
Members of the genus Flemingia
There are approximately 72 species in this genus:
F. abrupta · F. affinis · F. angusta · F. bhutanica · F. blancoana · F. brevipes · F. carbonaria · F. cavaleriei · F. chappar · F. chlorostachys · F. faginea · F. ferruginea · F. fragrans · F. glutinosa · F. gracilis · F. grahamiana · F. guineensis · F. hallaya · F. helferiana · F. hockii · F. horsfieldii · F. indet · F. involucrata · F. javanica · F. kerrii · F. kradungensis · F. kweichowensis · F. lacei · F. latifolia var. hainanensis · F. latifolia var. latifolia · F. lineata · F. lineata forma perglandulosa · F. lineata var. glutinosa · F. lineata var. lineata · F. macrocalyx · F. macrophylla · F. macrophylla var. congesta · F. macrophylla var. philippinensis · F. macrophylla var. robusta · F. mengpengensis · F. nilgheriensis · F. oblongifolia · F. paniculata · F. parviflora · F. parvifolia · F. pauciflora · F. phursia · F. polysperma · F. praecox · F. praecox var. angusta · F. praecox var. praecox · F. praecox var. robusta · F. procumbens · F. prostrata · F. rollae · F. sarmentosa · F. schultzii · F. sootepensis · F. stricta · F. stricta pteropus · F. stricta subsp. pteropus · F. strobilifera (Camarones) · F. strobilifera var. fluminalis · F. strobilifera var. nudiflora · F. strobilifera var. strobilifera · F. tiliacea · F. trifoliastrum · F. trifoliata · F. trinervia · F. tuberosa · F. wangkae · F. wightiana
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Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 8508162
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 15563183
- Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:495237-1
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 3514372
