Faboideae
| Faboideae | |
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| Crotalaria retusa | |
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Eudicots |
| (unranked): | Rosids |
| Order: | Fabales |
| Family: | Fabaceae |
| Subfamily: | Faboideae |
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Abreae |
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The Faboideae are a subfamily of the flowering plant family Fabaceae or Leguminosae. One acceptable alternative name for the subfamily is Papilionoideae.[4]
This subfamily is widely distributed and members are adapted to a wide variety of environments. Faboideae may be trees, shrubs or herbaceous plants. Members include the pea, the sweet pea and the laburnum. The flowers are classically pea-shaped, and root nodulation is very common.
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Genera [edit]
The type genus, Faba, is a synonym of Vicia, and is listed here as Vicia.
Gallery [edit]
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Scorpion Senna (Coronilla emerus) from Dictionaire des plantes suisses 1853
See also [edit]
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Wikispecies has information related to: Faboideae |
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Faboideae |
- Winged bean, Psophocarpus tetragonolobus
- Fenugreek, Trigonella foenum-graecum
- Angsana, or Burmese rosewood, Pterocarpus indicus
References [edit]
- ^ United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) (2003): Germplasm Resources Information Network – Faboideae. Version of 2003-JAN-17. Retrieved 2010-AUG-07.
- ^ "Faboideae at UniProt". Retrieved 2010-08-07.
- ^ "Systema Naturae 2000". Retrieved 2010-08-07.
- ^ McNeill, J.; Barrie, F.R.; Burdet, H.M. et al., eds. (2006), International code of botanical nomenclature (Vienna Code) adopted by the seventeenth International Botanical Congress, Vienna, Austria, July 2005 (electronic ed.), Vienna: International Association for Plant Taxonomy, retrieved 2011-02-20 , Article 19.7
