The Fabaceae or Leguminosae, commonly known as the legume, pea, or bean family, are a large and agriculturally important family of flowering plants.It includes trees, shrubs, and perennial or annual herbaceous plants, which are easily recognized by their fruit and their compound, stipulate leaves. The family is widely distributed, and is the third-largest land plant …

Solanaceae, Fabaceae, Liliaceae: Family Description According to plant taxonomists, it has been estimated that a total of 2 to 3 million plant species exist on our planet. Among them, around two lakh species are angiosperms (flowering plants), while others include gymnosperms, bryophytes, hydrophytes and other vascular and non-vascular plants.

Fabaceae Plants of the Pea Family (Previously known as the Legume Family: Leguminosae) ... plus other plants from the Mimosa and Bird-of-Paradise-Tree or Senna Subfamilies. These groups include mostly trees and shrubs, but also a few herbs. Their flowers do not have the banner, wings, and keel, however most have pinnate leaves, much like the ...

Delonix regia is a species of flowering plant in the bean family Fabaceae, subfamily Caesalpinioideae native to Madagascar.It is noted for its fern-like leaves and flamboyant display of orange-red flowers over summer. In many tropical parts of the world it is grown as an ornamental tree and in English it is given the name royal poinciana, flamboyant, phoenix flower, [citation …

The tree is an important source of forage for bees, especially during the dry season and in the beginning of the wet season. Like most plants in the family Fabaceae, Mimosa tenuiflora fertilizes the soil via nitrogen fixing bacteria. The tree is …

Samanea saman, also sometimes known as the rain tree, is a species of flowering tree in the pea family, Fabaceae, now in the Mimosoid clade and is native to Central and South America. Its range extends from Mexico south to Peru and Brazil, but it has been widely introduced to South [citation needed] and Southeast Asia, as well as the Pacific Islands, including Hawaii.

Rosaceae (/ r oʊ ˈ z eɪ ʃ iː /), the rose family, is a medium-sized family of flowering plants that includes 4,828 known species in 91 genera.. The name is derived from the type genus Rosa.Among the most species-rich genera are Alchemilla (270), Sorbus (260), Crataegus (260), Cotoneaster (260), Rubus (250), and Prunus (200), which contains the plums, cherries, …

Colophospermum mopane, commonly called mopane, mopani, balsam tree, butterfly tree, or turpentine tree, is a tree in the legume family (), that grows in hot, dry, low-lying areas, 200 to 1,150 metres (660 to 3,770 ft) in elevation, in the far northern parts of southern Africa.The tree only occurs in Africa and is the only species in genus Colophospermum. ...

Las fabáceas (Fabaceae) o leguminosas (Leguminosae) [2] son una familia del orden de las fabales.Reúne árboles, arbustos y hierbas perennes o anuales, fácilmente reconocibles por su fruto tipo legumbre y sus hojas compuestas y estipuladas.Es una familia de distribución cosmopolita con aproximadamente setecientos treinta géneros y unas diecinueve mil …

In biological classification, taxonomic rank is the relative level of a group of organisms (a taxon) in an ancestral or hereditary hierarchy.A common system consists of species, genus, family, order, class (), phylum, kingdom, domain.The study of taxonomy is also called cladistics.. A given rank subsumes under it less general categories, that is, more specific descriptions of life forms.