Fabaceae
Fabaceae
Fabaceae
Family
•Class: Magnoliopsida (dicot)
•Sub-Class: Rosidae
•Order: Fabales
•Family: Fabaceae
•Subfamily: 1. Papilionoideae
2. Caesalpinoideae
3. Mimosoideae
400 genera
10,000 species
Found all over the world,
concentrated in warm
temperate regions in the
Northern and Southern
Hemisphere (3rd largest
family of flowering plants)
http://pharm1.pharmazie.uni-greifswald.de/gallery/gal-faba.htm
Habit: Trees, Shrubs, Herbs
Self supporting, or
epiphytic, or climbing
Halophytic, or mesophytic,
or xerophytic
http://www.csdl.tamu.edu ASTRAGALUS
Standard
or
Banner
Keel
Wing
http://www.botany.hawaii.edu/faculty/carr/images/tip_tip_2666.jpg
Gynoecium: one simple pistil
(1 carpel, 1 locule),
ovary superior,
marginal placentation
PERIGYNOUS
http://www.botany.hawaii.edu/faculty/webb/BOT410/Angiosperm/Adnat
ion.htm
HYPOGENOUS
http://www.botany.h
awaii.edu/
EPIGYNOUS
Androecium: 10 stamens,
monadelphous (A 10) or diadelphous
(A 9+1)
Wisteria sinensis (9+1)
http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/FLORA/
INFLORESCENCE
Racemes Indeterminate
Growth and
Pedicellate
Erythrina speciosa
Spikes Indeterminate/Sessile
Heads Sessile
Anthyllis vulneraria
LEAVES
Compound (pinnate or palmate) rarely
simple, alternate
ODD-BIPINNATE PALMATE
Lathyrus Odoratus
Trifolium campestre
www.botgard.ucla.edu/.../typesofshoots/
http://www.bioimages.org.uk/HTML/R151135.HTM tendril/b0371tx.html
PULVINUS
(enlarged petiole base)
http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/FLORA/
Associated with leaf movement-in
response to touch or heat
Mimosa – “Sensitive Plant”
Roots: nodules and nitrogen fixing bacteria
Rhizobia on
Root Hair
http://www.nmsu.edu/~molbio/plant/peas.html
Fruit: Simple, Capsule: dehiscent legume
or a loment
LEGUME
LOMENT
http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/FLORA/
Seed: May have food reserves in the cotyledons
LOMENT
Erythrina herbacea
LEGUME
http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/FLORA/i
SEEDS CONT…
Varying shape and size
Composed of embryonic
axis and two cotyledons
The axis has embryonic
root (radicle), the
hypocotyl, and the first true
leaves (plumule)
Germination is Epigeal or Hypogeal
http://www.floraguide.es/arboles/Ceratoniasiliqua.htm
Medicago –
Livestock Feed
http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/FLORA/
Astragalus -
Aphrodisiac
http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/FLORA/
Arachis – WHAT A GOOBER!
http://www.hort.purdue.edu/
Lupinus - poisonous
http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/FLORA/
Phaseolus – Wash your face with Beans?
Glycine – Watch out for the
oligosaccharides!
Cicer - Protein
http://www.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/warp/album-Kosterin-8.html
Pisum – Anti-sex horomonic effects
http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/FLORA/
Lens – Better than a cold shower!
Lathyrus – Oh Sweet Pea!
http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/FLORA/
Clitoria – May Promote Nausea and
Vomiting
http://pharm1.pharmazie.uni-greifswald.de/gallery/gal-faba.htm
References
http://www.botany.hawaii.edu/
http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/FLORA/
http://www.wisc.edu/
http://biodiversity.uno.edu/delta/
http://www.hort.purdue.edu/
http://www.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/warp/album-Kosterin-8.html
http://www.floraguide.es/arboles/Ceratoniasiliqua.htm
http://pharm1.pharmazie.uni-greifswald.de/gallery/gal-faba.htm
http://www.forestry.auburn.edu/
www.botgard.ucla.edu/.../typesofshoots/ tendril/b0371tx.html
http://gened.emc.maricopa.edu/bio/bio181/BIOBK/BioBookPLANTA
NAT.html#General%20Plant%20Organization