Legumes
Fabaceae
The Fabaceae or Papilionoideae, commonly known as the legume, pea, or bean family, is a large and economically important family of flowering plants. It includes trees, shrubs, and perennial or annual herbaceous plants, which are easily recognized by their fruit (legume) and their compound, stipulated leaves. Many legumes have characteristics of flowers and fruits. The family is widely distributed, and is the third-largest land plant family in terms of number of species, behind only the Orchidaceae...
8 branches of this family, most-observed first
Faboideae
subfamilyFaboideae
Acacias, Mimosas, Mesquites, and Allies
subfamilyMimosoideae
Peacock Flower Subfamily
subfamilyCaesalpinioideae
orchid trees and redbuds
subfamilyCercidoideae
Detarioideae
subfamilyDetarioideae
Dialioideae
subfamilyDialioideae
Duparquetioideae
subfamilyDuparquetioideae
Naiadendron
genusNaiadendron
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 47122.