Trees, shrubs, sometimes climbers or lianes, or rarely herbs, unarmed or often armed in tribe Caesalpinieae. Leaves mostly alternate, usually pinnate, sometimes bipinnate, rarely unifoliolate or simple or reduced to a phyllode-like rachis; stipules paired, usually small, often caducous, or absent. Inflorescence axillary, terminal or sometimes cauliflorous, commonly paniculate, or reduced to simple racemes or spikes, rarely capitate or flowers solitary; racemes sometimes (by reduction of the main axis) represented by umbelliform fascicles. Flowers small to medium or large, regular or usually ±irregular to strongly irregular, mostly bisexual and 5-merous. Hypanthium absent to elongate and pedicel-like. Sepals usually imbricate, rarely valvate, rarely open from an early stage of bud, free or sometimes ±connate (in archaic genera such as Gleditsia the perianth is not clearly differentiated into two dissimilar series). Petals imbricate in bud, usually with the dorsal one within and overlapped by the adjacent lateral ones, free or sometimes united below, usually 5, sometimes reduced to only 1 or altogether absent. Stamens usually 10 or fewer, rarely numerous, free or ±united below, often of 2 unequal sets or some staminodal; filaments longer or shorter than the anthers; anthers usually dehiscing longitudinally but sometimes with apical or basal pores; pollen grains usually simple. Ovary unicarpellate, free or when stipitate the stipe sometimes ±adnate to the calyx tube; ovules anatropous. Fruit usually elongate, several- to many-seeded and dehiscent but various and sometimes indehiscent, drupaceous or samaroid. Seeds generally without areoles, with an apical or subapical hilum; embryo with a generally straight radicle.
Trees, shrubs, climbers or herbs. Leaves alternate, simple or compound and then often trifoliolate or pinnate. Flowers with 5 petals, characteristically 'papilionaceous', i.e. zygomporphic with one large 'standard' petal, two smaller 'wings' and two petals joined to form a 'keel', sometimes with some of these members variously reduced or enlarged. Stamens 10, all free or united into an open or closed tube around the style. Fruit a 2-valved pod, occasionally indehiscent or breaking transversely into 1-seeded sections.
Mostly trees and shrubs, sometimes lianes (Entada ) or herbs (Desmanthus , some Mimosa spp. and Neptunia ), unarmed or with stipular spines or prickles. Leaves alternate, bipinnate or reduced to phyllodes, commonly with extrafloral nectaries on either or both main and secondary axes; stipules rarely absent, but often caducous (persistent and conspicuous in some Neptunia spp.); leaflets (when present) generally opposite, rarely alternate (Adenanthera , Pararchidendron ). Inflorescence globular to oblong clusters, solitary or aggregated in axillary, terminal or cauliflorous/ramiflorous, simple racemes to complex, compound panicles. Flowers sessile or pedicellate, mostly 4- or 5-merous, regular, bisexual, unisexual or some neuter (Dichrostachys , Neptunia ), green, white, cream, yellow, red or purple. Stamens few to numerous; filaments free or united at base or forming a tube, this sometimes adnate with corolla base; anthers dorsifixed or basifixed, sometimes with apical, stalked, caducous gland. Pistil solitary or several, free. Pod dehiscent by one or both margins or indehiscent, sometimes fragmenting in 1-seeded sections (Cathormion , Mimosa ). Seeds oriented transversely, obliquely or longitudinally; pleurogram generally present but sometimes lacking (Archidendron , Archidendropsis and Entada in Australia). source:
ABRS Flora of Australia Online
Fabaceae range in habit from giant trees (like Koompassia excelsa ) to small annual herbs , with the majority being herbaceous perennials. Plants have indeterminate inflorescences, which are sometimes reduced to a single flower. The flowers have a short hypanthium and a single carpel with a short gynophore , and after fertilization produce fruits that are legumes.... source: Wikipedia
| Accepted name | Source |
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| Fabaceae |
| Synonyms | Source |
|---|---|
| Leguminosae Juss. | |
| Published in: Jussieu, A.L. de 1789, Genera Plantarum | |
| Papilionaceae Giseke | |
| Published in: Giseke, P.D. 1792, Praelectiones in Ordines Naturales Plantarum | |
| Caesalpiniaceae R.Br. | |
| Published in: Brown, R. 1814, General remarks, geographical and systematical, on the Botany of Terra Australis. A Voyage to Terra Australis 2 533-613 | |
| Mimosaceae R.Br. | |
| Published in: Brown, R. 1814, General remarks, geographical and systematical, on the Botany of Terra Australis. A Voyage to Terra Australis 2 533-613 | |
| Caesalpiniaceae R.Br. | |
| Published in: Mabberley, D.J. 2008, Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3. | |
| Caesalpiniaceae R.Br. | |
| Published in: Cronquist, A.J. 1981, An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants | |
| Caesalpiniaceae R.Br. | |
| Published in: Burbidge, N.T. & Gray, M. 1970, Flora of the Australian Capital Territory | |
| Caesalpiniaceae R.Br. | |
| Published in: Jeanes, J.A. 1996, Caesalpiniaceae. Flora of Victoria 3 658-663 | |
| Caesalpiniaceae R.Br. | |
| Published in: Wheeler, J.R. 1992, Caesalpiniaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region 343-360 | |
| Caesalpiniaceae R.Br. | |
| Published in: Cunningham, G.M., Mulham, W.E., Milthorpe, P.L. & Leigh, J.H. 1981, Plants of Western New South Wales | |
| Caesalpiniaceae R.Br. | |
| Published in: Wheeler, J.R. 1987, Caesalpiniaceae. Flora of the Perth Region 1 234-236 | |
| Caesalpiniaceae R.Br. | |
| Published in: Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. 1962, Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains | |
| Caesalpiniaceae R.Br. | |
| Published in: Pedley, L. 1984, Caesalpiniaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 1 331, 387-397 | |
| Caesalpiniaceae R.Br. | |
| Published in: Dunlop, C.R., Leach, G.J. & Cowie, I.D. 1995, Flora of the Darwin Region 2 1-254 | |
| Caesalpiniaceae R.Br. | |
| Published in: Cowie, I.D., Short, P.S. & Osterkamp Madsen, M. 2000, Floodplain Flora. A flora of the coastal floodplains of the Northern Territory, Australia | |
| Caesalpiniaceae R.Br. | |
| Published in: Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. 2002, Dicotyledons. Flora of the South West 2 471-972 | |
| Leguminosae Juss. | |
| Published in: Mabberley, D.J. 2008, Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3. | |
| Leguminosae Juss. | |
| Published in: Black, J.M. 1924, Casuarinaceae - Euphorbiaceae. Flora of South Australia 2 155-358 | |
| Leguminosae Juss. | |
| Published in: Curtis, W.M. 1956, The Student's Flora of Tasmania 1 | |
| Leguminosae Juss. | |
| Published in: Curtis, W.M. & Morris, D.I. 1975, Angiospermae: Ranunculaceae to Myrtaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania Edn. 2. 1 | |
| Leguminosae Juss. | |
| Published in: Ewart, A.J. 1925, Handbook of Forest Trees for Victorian Foresters | |
| Leguminosae Juss. | |
| Published in: Brown, R. 1814, General remarks, geographical and systematical, on the Botany of Terra Australis. A Voyage to Terra Australis 2 533-613 | |
| Mimosaceae R.Br. | |
| Published in: Cronquist, A.J. 1981, An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants | |
| Mimosaceae R.Br. | |
| Published in: Burbidge, N.T. & Gray, M. 1970, Flora of the Australian Capital Territory | |
| Mimosaceae R.Br. | |
| Published in: Entwisle, T.J., Maslin, B.R., Cowan, R.S. & Court, A.B. 1996, Mimosaceae. Flora of Victoria 3 585-656 | |
| Mimosaceae R.Br. | |
| Published in: Wheeler, J.R. 1992, Mimosaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region 283-343 | |
| Mimosaceae R.Br. | |
| Published in: Cunningham, G.M., Mulham, W.E., Milthorpe, P.L. & Leigh, J.H. 1981, Plants of Western New South Wales | |
| Mimosaceae R.Br. | |
| Published in: Wheeler, J.R. 1987, Mimosaceae. Flora of the Perth Region 1 211-234 | |
| Mimosaceae R.Br. | |
| Published in: Stanley, T.D. 1984, Fabaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 1 239-331 | |
| Mimosaceae R.Br. | |
| Published in: Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. 1962, Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains | |
| Mimosaceae R.Br. | |
| Published in: Dunlop, C.R., Leach, G.J. & Cowie, I.D. 1995, Flora of the Darwin Region 2 1-254 | |
| Mimosaceae R.Br. | |
| Published in: Cowie, I.D., Short, P.S. & Osterkamp Madsen, M. 2000, Floodplain Flora. A flora of the coastal floodplains of the Northern Territory, Australia | |
| Mimosaceae R.Br. | |
| Published in: Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. 2002, Dicotyledons. Flora of the South West 2 471-972 | |
| Papilionaceae Giseke | |
| Published in: Cronquist, A.J. 1981, An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants | |
| Papilionaceae Giseke | |
| Published in: Wheeler, J.R. 1992, Papilionaceae (Fabaceae). Flora of the Kimberley Region 361-460 | |
| Papilionaceae Giseke | |
| Published in: Sands, V. 1975, The cytoevolution of the Australian Papilionaceae. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 100(2) 118-155 | |
| Papilionaceae Giseke | |
| Published in: Wheeler, J.R. 1987, Papilionaceae. Flora of the Perth Region 1 236-309 | |
| Papilionaceae Giseke | |
| Published in: Thompson, J. 1961, Papilionaceae. Flora of New South Wales 101(1) 1-91 | |
| Papilionaceae Giseke | |
| Published in: Costin, A.B., Gray, M., Totterdell, C.J. & Wimbush, D.J. 1979, Kosciusko Alpine Flora Edn. 1. | |
| Papilionaceae Giseke | |
| Published in: Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. 1962, Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains | |
| Papilionaceae Giseke | |
| Published in: Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. 2002, Dicotyledons. Flora of the South West 2 471-972 | |
| Common name | Source |
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| Bean |
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