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Fabeae

The tribe Fabeae is one of the subdivisions of the plant family Fabaceae. It is included within the Inverted repeat-lacking clade (IRLC). Four genera are included:Lathyrus L. (vetchlings) Pisum L. (peas) Vavilovia Fed. Vicia L.

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Fabeae
Vicia sativa
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Subfamily: Faboideae
Clade: Meso-Papilionoideae
Clade: Non-protein amino acid-accumulating clade
Clade: Hologalegina
Clade: Inverted repeat-lacking clade
Tribe: Fabeae
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Synonyms
  • Vicieae DC. 1825
  • Vicieae Bronn

The tribe Fabeae (sometimes referred to as "Vicieae")1 is one of the subdivisions of the plant family Fabaceae. It is included within the Inverted repeat-lacking clade (IRLC).2 Four genera are included:13

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References

  1. Hanno Schaefer; Paulina Hechenleitner; Arnoldo Santos-Guerra; Miguel Menezes de Sequeira; R. Toby Pennington; Gregory Kenicer; Mark A. Carine (2012). "Systematics, biogeography, and character evolution of the legume tribe Fabeae with special focus on the middle-Atlantic island lineages". BMC Evolutionary Biology. 12 (1): 250. Bibcode:2012BMCEE..12..250S. doi:10.1186/1471-2148-12-250. PMC 3547781. PMID 23267563.
  2. "IRLC". Tree of Life Web Project. Retrieved November 15, 2013.
  3. "Fabeae". Germplasm Resources Information Network. United States Department of Agriculture. October 16, 2003. Archived from the original on May 28, 2010. Retrieved August 4, 2010.
External links
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