Fabales

Information about Fabales

Fabales
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Plantae
Division:Magnoliophyta
Class:Magnoliopsida
Order:Fabales
Bromhead
Families


Fabaceae (legumes)
Quillajaceae
Polygalaceae (milkwort family)
Surianaceae


Fabales is an order of flowering plants. It is included in the rosid group of the eudicots in the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group II classification system. In the APG II circumscription this order includes the families Fabaceae or legumes (including the subfamilies Caesalpinioideae, Mimosoideae, and Papilionoideae), Quillajaceae, Polygalaceae or milkworts (including the families Diclidantheraceae, Moutabeaceae, and Xanthophyllaceae), and Surianaceae. Under the Cronquist system and some other plant classification systems, the order Fabales contains only the family Fabaceae. The other families treated in the Fabales by the APG II classification were placed in separate orders by Cronquist, the Polygalaceae within its own order, the Polygalales, and the Quillajaceae and Surianaceae within the Rosales.

The Fabaceae, as the third largest plant family in the world, contains 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 Polygalaceae is fairly well researched among plant families, in part due to the large diversity of the genus Polygala, and also due to members of the family, like the Fabaceae, being food plants for various Lepidoptera species.[1][2] While taxonomists using molecular phylogenetic techniques find strong support for the order, it should be noted that there remain questions about the morphological relationships of the Quillajaceae and Surianaceae to the rest of the order, due in part to limited research on these families.[3]

Distribution

The Fabales are a cosmopolitan order of plants, except that only the subfamily Papilionoideae (Faboideae) of the Fabaceae are well dispersed throughout the northern part of the North Temperate Zone.[4]

Gallery




Lathyrus tuberosa of the Fabaceae

Quillaja saponaria (Soap bark tree) of the Quillajaceae

Polygala myrtifolia (Milkwort) of the Polygalaceae

Suriana maritima of the Surianaceae


References

1. ^ Janz, N; S Nylin (1998). "Butterflies and plants: A phylogenetic study". Evolution 52 (2): 486-502. Retrieved on 21 November 2006. 
2. ^ DeVries, PJ; AI Chacon (1992). "Toward a better understanding of host use and biodiversity in riodinid butterflies". Journal of Research on the Lepidoptera 31 (1-2): 103-126. Retrieved on 21 November 2006. 
3. ^ Morgan, DR; Soltis, DE, Robertson KR (July 1994). "Systematic and evolutionary implications of rbcL sequence variation in Rosaceae". American Journal of Botany 81 (7): 890-903. DOI:10.2307/2445770. 
4. ^ Stevens, PF (07 May 2006). Angiosperm Phylogeny Website. Missouri Botanical Garden. Retrieved on 20 November 2006.
Scientific classification or biological classification is a method by which biologists group and categorize species of organisms. Scientific classification also can be called scientific taxonomy, but should be distinguished from folk taxonomy, which lacks scientific basis.
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Plantae
Haeckel, 1866[1]

Divisions

Green algae
  • Chlorophyta
  • Charophyta
Land plants (embryophytes)
  • Non-vascular land plants (bryophytes)

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Magnoliophyta

Classes

Magnoliopsida - Dicots
Liliopsida - Monocots

The flowering plants or angiosperms are the most widespread group of land plants. The flowering plants and the gymnosperms comprise the two extant groups of seed plants.
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Magnoliopsida

Magnoliopsida is the botanical name for a class of flowering plants. By definition the class will include the family Magnoliaceae, but its can otherwise vary, being more inclusive or less inclusive depending upon the classification system being
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Sir Edward Thomas ffrench Bromhead, 2nd Baronet (26 March 1789–14 March 1855) was a British landowner and mathematician best remembered as patron of the mathematician and physicist George Green.
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family (Latin: familia, plural familiae) is a rank, or a taxon in that rank. Exact details of formal nomenclature depend on the Nomenclature Code which applies.
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Fabaceae
Lindl.

Subfamilies

Caesalpinioideae
Mimosoideae
Faboideae
References

GRIN-CA 2002-09-01

The Fabaceae or Leguminosae
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Polygalaceae
R.Br.

Genera

Atroxima
Balgoya
Barnhartia
Bredemeyera
Carpolobia
Comesperma
Diclidanthera
Epirixanthes
Eriandra
Monnina

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Polygala
L.

Species

See text.

Polygala is a genus of about 500 species of flowering plants belonging to the family Polygalaceae, commonly known as milkwort or snakeroot.
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order (Latin: ordo, plural ordines) is a rank between class and family (termed a taxon at that rank). The superorder is a rank between class and order. Exact details of formal nomenclature depend on the Nomenclature Code which applies.
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Magnoliophyta

Classes

Magnoliopsida - Dicots
Liliopsida - Monocots

The flowering plants or angiosperms are the most widespread group of land plants. The flowering plants and the gymnosperms comprise the two extant groups of seed plants.
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rosids refers to a clade, meaning a monophyletic group of plants. This clade is one of the two main groups in the eudicots, the other being the asterids.
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Eudicots

Clades
  • Ranunculales
  • Sabiales
  • Proteales
  • Trochodendrales
  • Buxales
  • Gunnerales
  • Core eudicots:
  • Berberidopsidales

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A modern system of plant taxonomy, the APG II system of plant classification was published in 2003 by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group, APG, in
Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (2003).

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Fabaceae
Lindl.

Subfamilies

Caesalpinioideae
Mimosoideae
Faboideae
References

GRIN-CA 2002-09-01

The Fabaceae or Leguminosae
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Caesalpinioideae

Tribes

Cassieae
Caesalpinieae
Cercideae
Detarieae

Caesalpinioideae is a botanical name at the rank of subfamily, placed in the large family Fabaceae or Leguminosae.
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Mimosoideae

Infrafamilies

Acacieae
Ingeae
Mimoseae
Mimozygantheae
Parkieae

Mimosoideae is a subfamily of the flowering plant family Fabaceae (alt.
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Faboideae

Tribes

Abreae
Adesmieae
Aeschynomeneae
Amorpheae
Bossiaeeae
Brongniartieae
Carmichaelieae
Cicereae
Crotalarieae
Dalbergieae
Desmodieae
Dipterygeae
Euchresteae
Galegeae
Genisteae
Hedysareae
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Polygalaceae
R.Br.

Genera

Atroxima
Balgoya
Barnhartia
Bredemeyera
Carpolobia
Comesperma
Diclidanthera
Epirixanthes
Eriandra
Monnina

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Polygalaceae
R.Br.

Genera

Atroxima
Balgoya
Barnhartia
Bredemeyera
Carpolobia
Comesperma
Diclidanthera
Epirixanthes
Eriandra
Monnina

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Polygalaceae
R.Br.

Genera

Atroxima
Balgoya
Barnhartia
Bredemeyera
Carpolobia
Comesperma
Diclidanthera
Epirixanthes
Eriandra
Monnina

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Polygalaceae
R.Br.

Genera

Atroxima
Balgoya
Barnhartia
Bredemeyera
Carpolobia
Comesperma
Diclidanthera
Epirixanthes
Eriandra
Monnina

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A system of plant taxonomy, the Cronquist system is a scheme for the classification of flowering plants (or angiosperms). This system was developed by Arthur Cronquist (1919-1992) in his texts An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants (1981) and
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Polygalaceae
R.Br.

Genera

Atroxima
Balgoya
Barnhartia
Bredemeyera
Carpolobia
Comesperma
Diclidanthera
Epirixanthes
Eriandra
Monnina

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Rosales
Perleb

Families

Barbeyaceae
Cannabaceae (hemp family)
Dirachmaceae
Elaeagnaceae (oleaster/Russian olive family)
Moraceae (mulberry family)
Rhamnaceae (buckthorn family)
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Polygala
L.

Species

See text.

Polygala is a genus of about 500 species of flowering plants belonging to the family Polygalaceae, commonly known as milkwort or snakeroot.
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The Clipper Parthenos sylvia


Scientific classification

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Arthropoda
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Molecular phylogeny is the use of the structure of molecules to gain information on an organism's evolutionary relationships. The result of a molecular phylogenetic analysis is expressed in a so-called phylogenetic tree.

Every living organism contains DNA, RNA, and proteins.
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In biogeography, a biological category of living things is said to have cosmopolitan distribution if this category can be found almost anywhere around the world. See "cosmopolitan" for etymology.

An example of a cosmopolitan species is the Painted Lady butterfly.
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Faboideae

Tribes

Abreae
Adesmieae
Aeschynomeneae
Amorpheae
Bossiaeeae
Brongniartieae
Carmichaelieae
Cicereae
Crotalarieae
Dalbergieae
Desmodieae
Dipterygeae
Euchresteae
Galegeae
Genisteae
Hedysareae
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