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Faboideae is a subfamily of the flowering plant
Flowering plant

The flowering plants or angiosperms are the most widespread group of Embryophytes. The flowering plants and the gymnosperms are the only extant groups of Spermatophyte....
 family Fabaceae
Fabaceae

Fabaceae or Leguminosae is a large and economically important family of flowering plants, which is commonly known as the legume family, pea family, bean family or pulse family....
 or Leguminosae. An acceptable alternative name for the subfamily is Papilionoideae.

This subfamily is widely distributed and members are adapted to a wide variety of environments. Faboideae may be tree
TREE

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s, shrub
Shrub

A shrub or bush is a horticulture rather than strictly Botany category of woody plant, distinguished from a tree by its multiple stems and lower height, usually less than 5-6 m tall....
s or herbs. The flower
Flower

A flower, sometimes known as a bloom or blossom, is the reproduction structure found in flowering plants . The biological function of a flower is to mediate the union of male sperm with female ovum in order to produce seeds....
s are classically pea shaped and root nodulation is very common.








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Faboideae is a subfamily of the flowering plant
Flowering plant

The flowering plants or angiosperms are the most widespread group of Embryophytes. The flowering plants and the gymnosperms are the only extant groups of Spermatophyte....
 family Fabaceae
Fabaceae

Fabaceae or Leguminosae is a large and economically important family of flowering plants, which is commonly known as the legume family, pea family, bean family or pulse family....
 or Leguminosae. An acceptable alternative name for the subfamily is Papilionoideae.

This subfamily is widely distributed and members are adapted to a wide variety of environments. Faboideae may be tree
TREE

TREE was a Boston hardcore punk band formed in the summer of 1990. They were active in the Boston music scene until disbanding in 2002....
s, shrub
Shrub

A shrub or bush is a horticulture rather than strictly Botany category of woody plant, distinguished from a tree by its multiple stems and lower height, usually less than 5-6 m tall....
s or herbs. The flower
Flower

A flower, sometimes known as a bloom or blossom, is the reproduction structure found in flowering plants . The biological function of a flower is to mediate the union of male sperm with female ovum in order to produce seeds....
s are classically pea shaped and root nodulation is very common.

Genera

  1. The type genus, Faba, is a synonym of Vicia, and is listed here as Vicia.
  2. The genus Kennedya is a synonym of Kennedia, and is listed here as Kennedia.
  • Abrus
    Abrus

    Abrus is a genus of 13–18 species in the family Fabaceae, best known for one species, Abrus precatorius, Jequirity. The seeds of that species are used in beading and are infamous for their toxicity....
  • Acosmium
    Acosmium

    Acosmium Schott is a South America genus of Leguminosae . Three species are currently recognized. Most Acosmium species have been recently transferred to Leptolobium Vogel , and one species to the South American Guianodendron Sch....
  • Adenocarpus
  • Adenodolichos
  • Adesmia
  • Aenictophyton
  • Aeschynomene
    Aeschynomene

    Aeschynomene is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae. They are known commonly as jointvetches. These legumes are most common in warm regions and many species are Aquatic plants....
  • Afgekia
    Afgekia

    Afgekia is a small genus of large Perennial plant climbing shrubs native to Asia, reminiscent of the related genus Wisteria. The genus was named from the initials of Arthur Francis George Kerr , an Ireland-born plant collector who worked in then-Siam in the early twentieth century....
  • Aganope
  • Airyantha
  • Aldina
    Aldina

    Aldina is a genus of plant from Venezuelan Amazonia, of the family Fabaceae.A new species from the Amazonian lowland forest. Located in lowland humid forests....
  • Alexa
    Alexa (genus)

    Alexa is a genus of legumes.External links*...
  • Alhagi
    Alhagi

    Alhagi is a genus of Old World plants in the family Fabaceae. They are commonly called camelthorns or manna trees. There are three to five species....
  • Alistilus
  • Almaleea
    Almaleea

    Almaleea is a genus of Perennial plant shrubs from the legume family Fabaceae native to Australia....
  • Alysicarpus
    Alysicarpus

    Alysicarpus is a genus of plants in the family Fabaceae....
  • Amburana
    Amburana

    Amburana is a genus of legume in the Fabaceae family.It contains the following species:* Amburana acreana* Umburana Do Cheiro ...
  • Amicia
  • Ammodendron
  • Ammopiptanthus
  • Amorpha
    Amorpha

    Amorpha is a genus of plants in the pea family Fabaceae. All the species are native to North America, from southern Canada, most of the United States, and northern Mexico....
  • Amphicarpaea
  • Amphimas
  • Amphithalea
  • Anagyris
  • Anarthrophyllum
  • Andira
    Andira

    Andira is a genus of legume in the Fabaceae family.It contains the following species:* Andira galeottiana*     Andira inermis...
  • Angylocalyx
    Angylocalyx

    Angylocalyx is a genus of legume in the Fabaceae family.It contains the following species:* Angylocalyx braunii*     Angylocalyx talbotii...
  • Antheroporum
  • Anthyllis
    Anthyllis

    Anthyllis is a genus of plants in the family Fabaceae. This genus contains both herbaceous and shrubby species and is distributed in Europe, the Middle East and North Africa....
  • Antopetitia
  • Aotus
    Aotus (pea)

    Aotus is an Australian genus of flowering plants, within the legume family Fabaceae. Aotus species, together with other species of the tribe Mirbelieae, are often called Golden Peas because of their distinctive small yellow flowers....
  • Aphyllodium
  • Apios
  • Apoplanesia
  • Apurimacia
  • Arachis
    Arachis

    Arachis is a genus of about 70 species of annual and perennial flowering plants in the pea family , native to South America. At least one species, the Peanut , is a major food crop species of global importance; some of the other species are cultivated for food to a small extent in South America....
  • Argyrocytisus
  • Argyrolobium
  • Arthroclianthus
  • Aspalathus
  • Astracantha
  • Astragalus
    Astragalus

    Astragalus is a large genus of about 2,000 species of herbs and small shrubs, belonging to the legume family Fabaceae, subfamily Faboideae....
  • Ateleia
    Ateleia

    Ateleia is a genus of legume in the Fabaceae family.It contains the following species:* Ateleia gummifera*     Ateleia popenoei* ''Ateleia salicifolia...
  • Austrodolichos
  • Austrosteenisia
  • Baphia
    Baphia

    Baphia is a genus of legume in the Fabaceae family.It contains the following species:* Baphia abyssinica*     Baphia dewildeana* ''Baphia heudelotiana...
  • Baphiopsis
  • Baptisia
    Baptisia

    Baptisia is a genus of plants in the legume family. One of the better known species is Blue Wild Indigo, which is native to North America and commonly grown in gardens....
  • Barbieria
  • Behaimia
    Behaimia

    Behaimia is a genus of legume in the Fabaceae family.It contains the following species:* Behaimia cubensis...
  • Bergeronia
  • Bituminaria
    Bituminaria

    Bituminaria is small genus of perennial herbs from the family Fabaceae....
  • Bobgunnia
  • Bocoa
  • Bolusafra
  • Bolusanthus
  • Bolusia
  • Bossiaea
    Bossiaea

    Bossiaea is a genus in the pea family consisting of about 70 species which are native to Australia. The genus is named in honour of Bossieu de la Martini?re, a botanist on Jean-Fran?ois de Galaup, comte de La P?rouse expedition to Australia....
  • Bowdichia
  • Brachysema
    Brachysema

    Brachysema is a plant genus in the family Fabaceae which was first formally described by botanist Robert Brown in 1811. In 1999, several species were transferred to the genus Leptosema, and in 2002 the remaining species were transferred to the genus Gastrolobium....
  • Brongniartia
    Brongniartia

    Brongniartia is a genus of legume, first named by Carl Sigismund Kunth after the France botanist Adolphe Brongniart....
  • Brya
  • Bryaspis
  • Buceras
  • Burkilliodendron
  • Butea
    Butea

    Butea is also a commune in Iasi County, Romania, see Butea, Iasi.Butea or Flame of the Forest is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the pea family, Fabaceae....
  • Cadia
  • Cajanus
    Cajanus

    The genus Cajanus is a member of the family Fabaceae. There are 37 species, mainly distributed across Africa, Asia and Australasia.Species include the Pigeon pea and Cajanus scarabaeoides....
  • Calia
  • Calicotome
  • Callerya
  • Callistachys
  • Calophaca
  • Calopogonium
  • Calpurnia
  • Camoensia
    Camoensia

    Camoensia is a genus of 2 species of lianas in the family Fabaceae, subfamily Faboideae, native to the Gulf of Guinea, Africa.Species*Camoensia brevicalyx Benth....
  • Camptosema
  • Campylotropis
  • Canavalia
    Canavalia

    The genus Canavalia in the large legume family , comprises approximately 70-75 species of tropical origin. These vines have usually bright pea-flowers which are pollinated by insects such as solitary bees and carpenter bees ....
  • Candolleodendron
  • Caracallae
  • Caragana
    Caragana

    Caragana is a genus of about 80 species of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae, native to Asia and eastern Europe.They are shrubs or small trees growing 1-6 m tall....
  • Carmichaelia
  • Carrissoa
  • Carstienses
  • Cascaronia
  • Castanospermum
    Castanospermum

    Castanospermum australe , the only species in the genus Castanospermum, is a flowering plant in the family Fabaceae, native to the east coast of Australia in Queensland and New South Wales, and to Vanuatu and New Caledonia....
  • Catiang
  • Caulorrhizae
  • Centrolobium
    Centrolobium

    Centrolobium is a genus of legume in the Fabaceae family.It contains the following species:* Centrolobium microchaeta* Amarillo Guayaquil ...
  • Centrosema
    Centrosema

    Centrosema, the butterfly peas, are a genus of tropical American vines in the legume family . Species include:* Centrosema angustifolium Benth....
  • Chadsia
  • Chaetocalyx
  • Chamaecytisus
  • Chapmannia
    Chapmannia

    Chapmannia is a genus of legume in the Fabaceae family.It contains the following species:* Chapmannia gracilis*     Chapmannia reghidensis...
  • Chesneya
  • Chorizema
    Chorizema

    Chorizema is a genus of the legume family Fabaceae.Species include:*Chorizema aciculare C.A.Gardner*Chorizema carinatum J.M.Taylor & Crisp...
  • Christia
  • Cicer
    Cicer

    Cicer is a genus of the legume family Fabaceae. Its native distribution is across the Middle East and Asia. Its best known and only domesticated member is Cicer arietinum, the species which includes the Chickpea, or Garbanzo bean, and Chana dal....
  • Cladrastis
    Cladrastis

    Cladrastis kentukea is a species of Cladrastis native to the southeastern United States, with a restricted range from western North Carolina west to eastern Oklahoma, and from southern Missouri and Indiana south to central Alabama....
  • Clathrotropis
  • Cleobulia
  • Clianthus
  • Clitoria
    Clitoria

    Clitoria is a genus of flowering plants that are insect pollinated. These plants are native to tropical and temperate areas of the Old and New World including southeast Asia, where the flowers are often used as a food dye....
  • Clitoriopsis
  • Cochlianthus
  • Codariocalyx (sometimes included in Desmodium)
  • Collaea
  • Cologania
  • Colutea
    Colutea

    Colutea is a genus of about 25 species of deciduous flowering shrubs from 2-5 m tall, native to southern Europe, north Africa and southwest Asia....
  • Condylostylis
  • Condylostylus
  • Cordyla
    Cordyla

    Cordyla is a genus of legume in the Fabaceae family.It contains the following species:* Cordyla haraka*     Cordyla madagascariensis...
  • Coronilla
    Coronilla

    The genus Coronilla contains Old World shrubs and herbs.Coronilla species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including the case-bearers Coleophora and Coleophora....
  • Coursetia
    Coursetia

    Coursetia is a large genus of perennial herbs and shrubs native to the Americas that belongs to the family Fabaceae....
  • Craibia
    Craibia

    Craibia is a genus of legume in the Fabaceae family.It contains the following species:* Craibia atlantica...
  • Cranocarpus
  • Craspedolobium
  • Cratylia
    Cratylia

    Cratylia is a genus of legume in the Fabaceae family.It contains the following species:* Cratylia bahiensis...
  • Crotalaria
    Crotalaria

    Crotalaria is a genus of herbaceous plants and woody shrubs in the Family Fabaceae commonly know as rattlepods. Some 600 or more species of Crotalaria are described world-wide, mostly from the tropics; at least 500 species are known from Africa....
  • Cruddasia
  • Cullen
    Cullen (genus)

    Cullen is a genus of legume native to Tropics, Subtropics and arid regions of Africa, Asia and Australia. Despite the origin implied in the name of the constituent species Cullen americanum, legumes of this genus are not native to the Americas....
  • Cyamopsis
    Cyamopsis

    Cyamopsis is a genus of the family Fabaceae. Its species are distributed across Africa, Asia and the Pacific Ocean....
  • Cyathostegia
  • Cyclocarpa
  • Cyclolobium
  • Cyclopia
  • Cymbosema
  • Cytisophyllum
  • Cytisopsis
  • Cytisus
  • Dahlstedtia
  • Dalbergia
    Dalbergia

    Dalbergia is a large genus of small to medium-size trees, shrubs and lianas in the pea family, Fabaceae, subfamily Faboideae. The genus has a wide distribution, native to the tropical regions of Central America and South America, Africa, Madagascar and southern Asia....
  • Dalbergiella
  • Dalea
    Dalea

    Dalea, commonly known as Prairie Clover, is a genus of plants in the pea family Fabaceae....
  • Dalhousiea
  • Daviesia
    Daviesia

    Daviesia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae that are native to Australia. The genus is named in honour of Hugh Davies , a Welsh botanist....
  • Decorsea
    Decorsea

    Decorsea is a genus of legume in the Fabaceae family.It contains the following species:* Decorsea dinteri...
  • Deflexae
  • Dendrolobium
  • Dendrotelis
  • Derris
    Derris

    Derris is a climbing leguminous plant of Southeast Asia and the southwest Pacific islands, including New Guinea. Its roots contain rotenone, a strong insecticide and fish poison....
  • Desmodiastrum
  • Desmodium
    Desmodium

    Desmodium is a genus in the flowering plant family Fabaceae, sometimes called tick-trefoil, tick clover or beggar lice. There are dozens of species and the delimitation of the genus has shifted much over time....
  • Dewevrea
  • Dichilus
  • Dicraeopetalum
    Dicraeopetalum

    Dicraeopetalum is a genus of legume in the Fabaceae family.It contains the following species:* Dicraeopetalum capuroniana*     Dicraeopetalum mahafaliensis...
  • Dillwynia
    Dillwynia

    Dillwynia is a plant genus of the family Fabaceae. They are endemic to Australia, occurring in all states except the Northern Territory.Species...
  • Dioclea
    Dioclea

    The genus Dioclea is a member of the family Fabaceae native to the Americas. The seeds of these legumes are buoyant sea-beans, facilitating dispersal by floating in rivers....
  • Diphyllarium
  • Diphysa
  • Diplotropis
    Diplotropis

    Diplotropis is a genus of trees found in Brazil.Some representative species are:*Diplotropis purpurea*    Diplotropis racemosa*''Diplotropis rigidocarpa...
  • Dipogon
  • Dipteryx
    Dipteryx

    Dipteryx is a genus of nine species of shrubs and trees in the subfamily Faboideae of the pea family Fabaceae, native to South America and Central America and the Caribbean....
  • Discolobium
  • Disynstemon
  • Dolichopsis
  • Dolichos
    Dolichos

    'Dolichos' or 'Dolichus' maye refer to* Dolichos, a synonym of the legume genus Lablab* Dolichos long-race in ancient Olympics* Dolichus , a ground beetle genus...
  • Droogmansia
  • Dumasia
  • Dunbaria
  • Dussia
    Dussia

    Dussia is a genus of legume in the Fabaceae family.It contains the following species:* Dussia foxii...
  • Dysolobium
  • Ebenus
  • Echinospartum
  • Eleiotis
  • Eminia
  • Endosamara
  • Erectae
  • Erectoides
  • Eremosparton
  • Erichsenia
  • Erinacea
  • Eriosema
    Eriosema

    Eriosema is a genus of legume in the Fabaceae family.It contains the following species:* Eriosema harmsiana...
  • Errazurizia
  • Erythrina
    Erythrina

    Erythrina is a genus of tropical and subtropical flowering trees in the Family Fabaceae and distributed in tropical and subtropical regions worldwide....
  • Etaballia
  • Euchilopsis
  • Euchresta
  • Eutaxia
    Eutaxia

    Eutaxia is a genus of the family Fabaceae. They are native to Australia. Most are endemic to the Southwest Botanical Province of Western Australia, but a few are distributed throughout mainland Australia....
  • Eversmannia
  • Exostyles
  • Extranervosae
  • Eysenhardtia
  • Fiebrigiella
  • Fissicalyx
  • Flemingia
  • Fordia
    Fordia

    Fordia is a genus of legume in the Fabaceae family.It contains the following species:* Fordia incredibilis*     Fordia lanceolata* ''Fordia ophirensis...
  • Galactia
  • Galega
  • Gastrolobium
    Gastrolobium

    Gastrolobium is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae. There are over 100 species in this genus, and all but two are native to the Southwest Australia of Western Australia....
  • Geissaspis
  • Genista
    Genista

    Genista is a genus of Fabaceae which includes many species of Broom . Many of these brooms are notorious as noxious weeds.Species include:...
  • Genistidium
  • Geocarpa
  • Geoffroea
    Geoffroea

    Geoffroea is a rather small genus of wild spiny shrubs or small trees of tropical and subtropical South America. Although it gathers few species, they are highly extended geographically throughout the subcontinent....
  • Gliricidia
  • Glossostylus
  • Glycine
  • Glycyrrhiza
    Glycyrrhiza

    Glycyrrhiza is a genus of about 18 accepted species in the family Fabaceae , with a subcosmopolitan distribution in Asia, Australia, Europe, and the Americas....
  • Gompholobium
    Gompholobium

    Gompholobium is a genus in the pea family, Fabaceae, subfamily Faboideae.The genus is endemic to Australia.Species include:*Gompholobium aristatum Benth....
  • Gonocytisus
  • Goodia
    Goodia

    Goodia is a genus in the pea family, Fabaceae. The genus consists of two species, both native to Australia:*Goodia lotifolia Salisb....
  • Grazielodendron
  • Gueldenstaedtia
  • Halimodendron
    Halimodendron

    Halimodendron is a monotypic genus of Fabaceae containing the single species Halimodendron halodendron, which is known by several common names, including common salt tree and Russian salt tree....
  • Hammatolobium
  • Haplormosia
    Haplormosia

    Haplormosia is a genus of legume in the Fabaceae family.It contains the following species:* Haplormosia monophylla...
  • Hardenbergia
    Hardenbergia

    Hardenbergia is a small genus of legume vines from Australia.The genus was named in honour of Franziska Countess von Hardenberg, by English botanist George Bentham, in 1837....
  • Harleyodendron
  • Harpalyce
  • Hebestigma
  • Hedysarum
    Hedysarum

    Hedysarum is a genus of the botany family Fabaceae, consisting of about 309 species of annual or perennial herbs in Asia, Europe, North Africa, and North America....
  • Herpyza
  • Hesperolaburnum
  • Heteranthae
  • Heynianae
  • Hippocrepis
    Hippocrepis

    Hippocrepis is a genus of ornamental plants in the family Fabaceae....
  • Hoita
    Hoita

    Hoita is a small genus of legumes containing three species. They bear attractive purple or fuchsia flowers in large inflorescences similar to those of kudzu....
  • Holocalyx
  • Hovea
    Hovea

    Hovea is a genus of Perennial plant shrubs which are endemic to Australia. Species from this genus are occasionally cultivated as ornamental plants....
  • Humularia
  • Hybosema
  • Hylodesmum (sometimes included in Desmodium)
  • Hymenocarpos
  • Hymenolobium
  • Hypocalyptus
  • Indigofera
    Indigofera

    Indigofera is a large genus of about 700 species of flowering plants belonging to the family Fabaceae. They occur throughout the tropical and subtropical regions of the world, with a few species reaching the temperate zone in eastern Asia....
  • Inocarpus
  • Intertextae
  • Isotropis
    Isotropis

    Isotropis is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae . The genus is endemic to Australia.Species include:*Isotropis atropurpurea F.Muell. – Poison Sage...
  • Isthmocarpae
  • Jacksonia
    Jacksonia

    Jacksonia is a genus of leafless broom -like shrub in the flowering plant family Fabaceae. Endemic to Australia, they occur in a range of habitats in all Australian states except South Australia....
  • Jansonia
  • Kennedia
    Kennedia

    Kennedia is a genus of plants comprising 16 species, all native to Australia. They are evergreen climbing plants with woody stems. Thet usually have trifoliate leaves and pea-type flowers of various colours from pink to dark red and yellow to black....
  • Kotschya
    Kotschya

    Kotschya is a genus of about 30 species of legumes in the Fabaceae family.It contains the following species:* Kotschya platyphylla...
  • Kummerowia
  • Lablab
  • Laburnum
    Laburnum

    Laburnum is a genus of two species of small trees in the subfamily Faboideae of the pea family Fabaceae, Laburnum anagyroides and Laburnum alpinum ....
  • Lamprolobium
  • Lasiospron
  • Lathyrus
    Lathyrus

    The genus Lathyrus consists of the sweet peas and vetchlings, flowering plants in the legume family Fabaceae. There are approximately 160 species of Lathyrus; they are native to temperate areas, with a breakdown of 52 species in Europe, 30 species in North America, 78 in Asia, 24 in tropical East Africa, and 24 in temperat...
  • Latrobea
  • Lebeckia
    Lebeckia

    Lebeckia is a genus of legume in the Fabaceae family.It contains the following species:* Lebeckia brevicarpa*     Lebeckia brevipes* ''Lebeckia candolleana...
  • Lecointea
    Lecointea

    Lecointea is a genus of legume in the Fabaceae family.It contains the following species:* Lecointea amazonica*     Lecointea ovalifolia...
  • Lennea
    Lennea

    Lennea is a genus of legume in the Fabaceae family.It contains the following species:* Lennea viridiflora...
  • Lens
    Lens (genus)

    The genus Lens of the legume family Fabaceae contains four species of small, erect or climbing herbs with pinnate Leaf and small inconspicuous white flowers and small flattened pods....
  • Leptoderris
  • Leptodesmia
  • Leptosema
    Leptosema

    Leptosema is an Western Australian genus from the legume family Fabaceae.External links...
  • Leptospireae
  • Leptospron
  • Lespedeza
    Lespedeza

    Lespedeza is a genus of about 30 species of flowering plants in the pea family Fabaceae, commonly known as Bush clover or Japanese clover....
  • Lessertia
  • Leucomphalos
  • Liebrechtsia
  • Liparia
    Liparia

    The liparia or Macedonian shad is a species of fish in the Clupeidae family. It is Endemism to Greece. Its natural habitat is freshwater lakes....
  • Lonchocarpus
    Lonchocarpus

    Lonchocarpus is a plant genus in the legume family . The species are called lancepods due to their fruit resembling an ornate lance tip or a few beads on a string....
  • Lotononis
    Lotononis

    Lotononis is a genus of legume in the Fabaceae family and in the Crotalarieae tribe. This is a partial list of species that belong to the genus:...
  • Lotus
    Lotus (genus)

    Lotus is a genus that includes bird's-foot trefoils and deervetches and contains many dozens of species distributed world-wide. Depending on the taxonomic authority, roughly between 70 and 150 are accepted....
  • Luetzelburgia
  • Lunatae
  • Lupin
    Lupin

    Lupin, often spelled lupine in North America, is the common name for members of the genus Lupinus in the legume family . The genus comprises between 200-600 species, with major centers of diversity in South America and western North America - ) and - in the Mediterranean region and Africa....
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  • Lupularia
  • Luzonia
  • Maackia
    Maackia

    Maackia is a genus of 11 species of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae, native to eastern Asia.They are small to medium-sized deciduous trees typically growing 10-15 m tall....
  • Machaerium
    Machaerium

    Machaerium is a genus of legume in the Fabaceae family. It contains the following species:* Machaerium chambersii*Machaerium cirrhiferum ...
  • Macrodontae
  • Macropsychanthus
  • Macroptilium
  • Macrotyloma
    Macrotyloma

    Macrotyloma is a genus of plants in the Fabaceae which include several species of edible beans.Species include:*Macrotyloma africanum...
  • Margaritolobium
  • Marina
    Marina (genus)

    Marina is a genus of legumes. They are known as the false prairie clovers.Selected species:*Marina brevis*    Marina calycosa...
  • Mastersia
  • Mecopus
  • Medicago
    Medicago

    Medicago is a genus of flowering plants, commonly known as medick or burclover. The best known member of the genus is alfalfa , an important crop....
  • Melilotus
  • Melliniella
  • Melolobium
    Melolobium

    Melolobium is a genus of 15 species of flowering plants belonging to the legume family . It is native to southern Africa, where it is found in south and east Namibia, southwest Botswana, and most of South Africa....
  • Mildbraediodendron
  • Millettia
    Millettia

    Millettia is a genus of legume in the Fabaceae family.It contains the following species:* Millettia aurea*     Millettia bussei* ''Millettia capuronii...
  • Mirbelia
    Mirbelia

    Mirbelia is the botanical name of a plant genus belonging to the Fabaceae Family . It is endemic to Australia, occurring in every mainland state except South Australia....
  • Monopteryx
  • Mucuna
    Mucuna

    Mucuna is a genus of around 100 accepted species of climbing vines and shrubs of the Family Fabaceae, found worldwide in the woodlands of tropical areas....
  • Muelleranthus
  • Mundulea
  • Myrocarpus
    Myrocarpus

    Myrocarpus is a genus of legume in the Fabaceae family.It contains the following species:* Myrocarpus frondosus...
  • Myrospermum
  • Myroxylon
    Myroxylon

    Myroxylon is a genus of two species of South American trees in the Fabaceae . The tree is well know in the western world as the source for Perfume#Plant sources and Tolu balsam....
  • Mysanthus
  • Nemcia
  • Neocollettia
  • Neoharmsia
    Neoharmsia

    Neoharmsia is a genus of legume in the Fabaceae family.It contains the following species:* Neoharmsia baronii*     Neoharmsia madagascariensis...
  • Neonotonia
  • Neorautanenia
  • Neorudolphia
  • Nephrodesmus
  • Nesphostylis
  • Nissolia
  • Nogra
  • Ohwia
    Ohwia

    Ohwia is a genus of plant in the Fabaceae family. Its place in taxonomy is not clear, since some botanists see it as a synonym of Desmodium....
     (sometimes included in Desmodium)'Olneya
  • Onobrychis
  • Ononis
    Ononis

    Ononis is a large genus of perennial plant herbs and shrubs from the legume family Fabaceae. The members of this genus are often called restharrows as some species are arable weeds whose tough stems would stop the harrow ....
  • Ophrestia
  • Orbexilum
  • Orbiculares
  • Oreophysa
  • Ormocarpopsis
    Ormocarpopsis

    Ormocarpopsis is a genus of legume in the Fabaceae family.It contains the following species:* Ormocarpopsis aspera* Ormocarpopsis calcicola...
  • Ormocarpum
    Ormocarpum

    Ormocarpum is a genus of legume in the Fabaceae family.It contains the following species:* Ormocarpum dhofarense*     Ormocarpum klainei...
  • Ormosia
    Ormosia

    Ormosia is a genus of legumes . The more than 110 living species, mostly trees or large shrubs, are distributed throughout the tropical regions of the world, some extending into temperate zones, especially in East Asia....
  • Ornithopus
    Ornithopus

    Ornithopus is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae.Selected species*Yellow Serradella - Ornithopus compressus*Serradella - Ornithopus sativus...
  • Oryxis
  • Ostryocarpus
  • Otholobium
    Otholobium

    Otholobium is a genus of legume in the Fabaceae family.It contains the following species:* Otholobium holosericeum*     Otholobium glandulosum...
  • Otoptera
  • Oxylobium
    Oxylobium

    Oxylobium , also known as Shaggy Pea, is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae . The genus is native to Australia.Species include:...
  • Oxyrhynchus
  • Oxytropis
    Oxytropis

    Oxytropis is a genus of plants in the legume family. It is one of two genera of plants known as locoweeds, and are notorious for being toxic to grazing animals....
  • Pachyrhizus
    Pachyrhizus

    Pachyrhizus is a small genus of five or six species of tropical and subtropical plants growing from large, often edible taproots....
  • Pachyspireae
  • Panurea
  • Paracalyx
    Paracalyx

    Paracalyx is a genus of legume in the Fabaceae family.It contains the following species:* Paracalyx balfourii...
  • Paramachaerium
    Paramachaerium

    Paramachaerium is a genus of legume in the Fabaceae family.It contains the following species:* Paramachaerium schunkei...
  • Parochetus
    Parochetus

    Parochetus is a genus of Perennial plant herbs....
  • Parryella
  • Pearsonia
    Pearsonia

    Pearsonia Richard Arnold D?mmer is an African plant genus of some 12 species belonging to the family Fabaceae and occurring south of the equator with 1 species found on Madagascar....
  • Pediomelum
    Pediomelum

    Pediomelum is a genus of Fabaceae known as Indian breadroots. These are glandular perennial plants with palmately-arranged leaves. They have a main erect stem with inflorescences of blue or purple flowers and produce hairy legume pods containing beanlike seeds....
  • Pedunculares
  • Peltiera
  • Periandra
  • Pericopsis
    Pericopsis

    Pericopsis is a genus of legume in the Fabaceae family.It contains the following species:* African Teak * Nandu Wood ...
  • Petaladenium
  • Peteria
  • Petteria
  • Phaseolus
    Phaseolus

    Phaseolus is a genus in the family Fabaceae of about fifty plant species, all native to the Americas.At least four of the species have been domestication since pre-Columbian times for their beans....
  • Phylacium
  • Phyllodium
  • Phyllota
    Phyllota

    Phyllota is an Australian genus from the family Fabaceae, a biological grouping of flowering plants.Species include:*Phyllota barbata Benth....
  • Phylloxylon
    Phylloxylon

    Phylloxylon is a genus of legume in the Fabaceae family. It contains the following species, all of which are found only in Madagascar:* Phylloxylon arenicola...
  • Physostigma
  • Pickeringia
  • Pictetia
  • Piptanthus
  • Piscidia
  • Pisum
    Pisum

    Pisum is a genus of the family Fabaceae, native to southwest Asia and northeast Africa. It contains one to five species, depending on taxonomic interpretation; the International Legume Database accepts three species, one with two subspecies :...
  • Plagiocarpus
  • Platycarpae
  • Platycelyphium
  • Platycyamus
  • Platylobium
    Platylobium

    Platylobium is a genus of shrubs in the Fabaceae family. Native to south eastern Australia, they occur in a range of habitats of the coastal regions....
  • Platymiscium
    Platymiscium

    Platymiscium is a genus of legume in the Fabaceae family. It has a Neotropical distribution, from south Brazil to north Mexico. It contains 19 species according to Klitgaard ....
  • Platypodium
  • Platysepalum
  • Plectrotropis
  • Podalyria
  • Podocytisus
  • Poecilanthe
    Poecilanthe

    Poecilanthe is a genus of legume in the Fabaceae family.It contains the following species:* Poecilanthe ovalifolia* Lapachillo ...
  • Poiretia
  • Poitea
  • Polhillia
  • Pongamiopsis
    Pongamiopsis

    Pongamiopsis is a genus of legume in the Fabaceae family.It contains the following species:* Pongamiopsis amygdalina* Pongamiopsis pervilleana...
  • Procerae
  • Procumbentes
  • Prorhizomatosae
  • Pseudarthria
  • Pseudeminia
  • Pseudoeriosema
  • Pseudoliebrechtsia
  • Pseudovigna
  • Psophocarpus
  • Psoralea
    Psoralea

    Psoralea is a genus in the legume family . Although most species are poisonous, the starchy roots of Psoralea esculenta and P. hypogaea are edible....
  • Psoralidium
  • Psorothamnus
    Psorothamnus

    Psorothamnus is a genus of plants in the Fabaceae. These are shrubs and small trees. Many are known by the general common name indigo bush....
  • Pterocarpus
    Pterocarpus

    Pterocarpus is a pantropical genus of trees in the family Fabaceae, most of which yield valuable timber traded as padauk ; other common names are mukwa or narra....
  • Pterodon
    Pterodon

    Pterodon is a game developer located in the Czech Republic. In the year of 2006 they joined Illusion Softworks. Pterodon was founded in 1999 by Radek Hrbat?, in Hrbat?'s garage....
  • Ptycholobium
  • Ptychosema
  • Pueraria
    Pueraria

    Pueraria is a genus of 15?20 species of plants native to Asia.The genus is polyphyletic, with different species being related to species in Glycine , Amphicarpaea, Nogra, Teyleria, Neonotonia, Pseudovigna, Pseudeminia, Pachyrhizus , and other genera of the tribe Phaseoleae....
  • Pultenaea
    Pultenaea

    Pultenaea is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae that are native to Australia. The genus is named in honour of Richard Pulteney, an English botanist....
  • Pycnospora
  • Pyranthus
  • Rafnia
  • Ramorinoa
  • Reflexae
  • Retama
  • Reticulatae
  • Rhizomatosae
  • Rhodopis
  • Rhynchosia
    Rhynchosia

    Rhynchosia is a genus of plants in the Fabaceae family.References...
  • Rhynchotropis
  • Riedeliella
  • Robinia
    Robinia

    Robinia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae, subfamily Faboideae, native to North America and northern Mexico. Commonly known as locusts, they are deciduous trees and shrubs growing 4-25 m tall....
  • Robynsiophyton
  • Rotatae
  • Rothia
  • Rupertia
  • Sakoanala
    Sakoanala

    Sakoanala is a genus of legume in the Fabaceae family.It contains the following species:* Sakoanala madagascariensis...
  • Salweenia
  • Sarcodum
  • Sartoria
  • Schefflerodendron
    Schefflerodendron

    Schefflerodendron is a genus of legume in the Fabaceae family.It contains the following species:* Schefflerodendron usambarense...
  • Scorpiurus
  • Sellocharis
  • Sesbania
    Sesbania

    Sesbania is a genus from the family Fabaceae with some aquatic species. Notable species include the Rattlebox , Spiny Sesbania , and Sesbania sesban, which is used in cooking....
  • Shuteria
  • Sigmoidotropis
  • Sinodolichos
  • Smirnowia
  • Smithia
  • Soemmeringia
  • Sophora
    Sophora

    Sophora is a genus of about 45 species of small trees and shrubs in the subfamily Faboideae of the pea family Fabaceae. The species are native to southeast Europe, southern Asia, Australasia, the islands of the Pacific Ocean and western South America....
  • Spartidium
  • Spartium
  • Spathionema
  • Spatholobus
  • Sphaerolobium
    Sphaerolobium

    Sphaerolobium is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae. The genus is endemism to Australia, occurring in all states and territories except the Northern Territory....
  • Sphaerophysa
  • Sphenostylis
  • Sphinctospermum
  • Spirocarpos
  • Spirotropis
  • Spongiocarpella
  • Stauracanthus
  • Stirtonanthus
  • Stracheya
  • Streblorrhiza
  • Strongylodon
  • Strophostyles
  • Stylosanthes
  • Styphnolobium
    Styphnolobium

    Styphnolobium is a small genus of three or four species of small trees and shrubs in the subfamily Faboideae of the pea family Fabaceae, formerly included within a broader interpretation of the genus Sophora....
  • Sutherlandia
    Sutherlandia

    Sutherlandia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae.Selected species*Sutherlandia frutescens...
  • Swainsona
    Swainsona

    Swainsona is a large genus of flowering plants native to Australasia. There are 85 species, all but one of which is endemic to Australia; the exception, Swainsona novae-zelandiae, occurs only in New Zealand....
  • Swartzia
    Swartzia

    Swartzia is a genus of legume in the Fabaceae family.It contains the following species:* Swartzia aureosericea*     Swartzia bombycina...
  • Sweetia
  • Sylvichadsia
  • Tadehagi
  • Taralea
  • Taverniera
    Taverniera

    Taverniera is a genus of legume in the Fabaceae family.It contains the following species:* Taverniera sericophylla...
  • Templetonia
    Templetonia

    Templetonia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae. They are native to Australia.The genus is named in honour of John Templeton , an Irish naturalist and botanist....
  • Tephrosia
    Tephrosia

    Tephrosia is a genus of legume in the Fabaceae family. Many species in the Tephrosia genus are poisonous, particularly to fish, for their high concentration of rotenone....
  • Teramnus
  • Teyleria
  • Thermopsis
    Thermopsis

    Thermopsis is a genus of Fabaceae. They are known generally as goldenbanners....
  • Tipuana
    Tipuana

    Tipuana belongs to subfamily Faboideae of the legume family Fabaceae....
  • Trierectoides
  • Trifidacanthus
  • Trifolium
  • Trigonella
    Trigonella

    Trigonella is a large genus from the family Fabaceae, with about 130 species. The best known member is the herb Fenugreek....
  • Tripodion
  • Triseminatae
  • Uleanthus
  • Ulex
  • Uraria
  • Uribea
  • Urodon
    Urodon

    Urodon is a small genus from the family Fabaceae native to southwestern Australia.External links...
  • Vandasina
  • Vatairea
  • Vataireopsis
  • Vatovaea
  • Vavilovia
  • Vermifrux
  • Vicia
    Vicia

    The vetches are a large genus of about 140 species of flowering plants in the legume family . They are native to Europe, Asia and Africa. Some other genera of their subfamily Faboideae also have names containing "vetch", for example the vetchlings or the milk-vetches ....
  • Vigna
    Vigna

    The genus Vigna is in the plant family Fabaceae. The genus is named after Dominico Vigna, an Italian people botanist of the 17th century. They include some well-known and other less well-known beans formerly – and sometimes still, especially in non-scholarly sources – included in the genus Phaseolus....
  • Viminaria
    Viminaria

    Viminaria juncea is the single species in the genus Viminaria endemic to Australia. The genus is in the family Fabaceae. It is colloquially known as native broom after its resemblance to the related European Broom plants....
  • Virgilia
    Virgilia (genus)

    Virgilia is a genus of Southern African trees in the family Fabaceae, having shiny to hairy pinnate leaves and attractive mauve to pink pea-shaped flowers followed by leathery pods....
  • Weberbauerella
    Weberbauerella

    Weberbauerella is a South America genus of herb, currently containing a single accepted species Weberbauerella brongniartioides....
  • Wiborgia
    Wiborgia

    Wiborgia is an African genus of the family Fabaceae. It was named for Erik Viborg by Carl Peter Thunberg....
  • Wisteria
    Wisteria

    Wisteria is a genus of about ten species of woody climbing vines native to the eastern United States and the East Asian states of China, Korea, and Japan....
  • Xanthocercis
    Xanthocercis

    Xanthocercis zambesiaca is the single species of tree in the genus Xanthocercis, from the family Fabaceae. The species has a native range covering Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe, where it is called the Mashatu tree....
  • Zollernia
    Zollernia

    Zollernia is a genus of the family Fabaceae native to Central America and South America. Zollernia are trees or shrubs that flower annually....
  • Zornia
    Zornia

    Zornia is a cosmopolitan genus of herbs from the legume family Fabaceae....


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    • Winged Bean
      Winged bean

      The Winged bean , also known as the Goa bean and Asparagus Pea and Winged Pea , is a tropical legume plant native to Papua New Guinea....
      , Psophocarpus tetragonolobus
    • Fenugreek
      Fenugreek

      Fenugreek is a plant in the family Fabaceae. Fenugreek is used both as an herb and as a spice . It is cultivated worldwide as a semi-arid crop....
      ,       Trigonella foenum-graecum
    • Angsana
      Angsana

      Pterocarpus indicus is a species of Pterocarpus native to southeastern Asia, northern Australasia, and the western Pacific Ocean islands, in Cambodia, southernmost China, East Timor, Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, the Ryukyu Islands, the Solomon Islands, Thailand, and Vietnam....
      , or Burmese Rosewood,       Pterocarpus indicus