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The Fabaceae (/ f ə ˈ b eɪ s i. iː,-ˌ aɪ /) or Leguminosae, [6] commonly known as the legume, pea, or bean family, are a large and agriculturally important family of flowering plants. It includes trees, shrubs, and perennial or annual herbaceous plants, which are easily recognized by their fruit and their compound, stipulate leaves.
This is a list of genera in the plant family Fabaceae, or Leguminosae, commonly known as the legume, pea, or bean family, are a large and economically important family of flowering plants of about 794 genera [1] and nearly 20,000 known species.
Ulmaceae (elm family) Ulmus, from a Latin plant name [119] [120] [121] 7 genera, mainly in the temperate Northern Hemisphere [122] [123] Trees and shrubs with thin sap. Dutch elm disease killed almost all of the elms in North America and Europe in the 20th century. Disease-resistant elms have been difficult to propagate. [19] [122] Rosales [122]
Legumes (/ ˈ l ɛ ɡ j uː m, l ə ˈ ɡ j uː m /) are plants in the family Fabaceae (or Leguminosae), or the fruit or seeds of such plants. When used as a dry grain for human consumption, the seeds are also called pulses .
The symbiosis between nitrogen fixing rhizobia and the legume family has emerged and evolved over the past 66 million years. [30] [31] Although evolution tends to swing toward one species taking advantage of another in the form of noncooperation in the selfish-gene model, management of such symbiosis allows for the continuation of cooperation. [32]
List of pea diseases; List of peach and nectarine diseases; List of peanut diseases; List of pear diseases; List of pearl millet diseases; List of pecan diseases; List of pepper diseases; List of Persian violet diseases; List of pigeonpea diseases; List of pineapple diseases; List of foliage plant diseases (Piperaceae) List of pistachio diseases
The Fabaceae, as the third-largest plant family in the world, contain most of the diversity of the Fabales, the other families making up a comparatively small portion of the order's diversity. Research in the order is largely focused on the Fabaceae, due in part to its great biological diversity, and to its importance as food plants.
The Faboideae are a subfamily of the flowering plant family Fabaceae or Leguminosae. An acceptable alternative name for the subfamily is Papilionoideae, or Papilionaceae when this group of plants is treated as a family. [4] This subfamily is widely distributed, and members are adapted to a wide variety of environments.