What is Fabaceae? A report all about Fabaceae for homework/assignment The Fabaceae or Leguminosae, commonly known as the legume, pea, or bean family, are a large and economically important family of flowering plants. It includes trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants perennials or annuals, which are easily recognized by their fruit (legume) and their compound, stipulated leaves. The group is widely distributed and is the third-largest land plant family in terms of number of species, behind only the Orchidaceae and Asteraceae, with 630 genera and over 18,860 species. The five largest of the 630 legume genera are Astragalus (over 2,000 species), Acacia (over 1000 species), Indigofera (around 700 species), Crotalaria (around 700 species), and Mimosa (around 500 species), which constitute about a quarter of all legume species. About 18,000 legume species are known, amounting to about 7% of flowering plant species. Fabaceae is the most common family found in tropical rainforests and in dry forests in the Americas and Africa. Intro/Outro music: Discovery Hit/Chucky the Construction Worker - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under CC-BY-3.0 Text derived from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabaceae Text to Speech powered by voice-rss.com Images are Public Domain or CC-BY-3.0: Fabaceae_flower.jpg from http://sr.wikipedia.org/sr/Fabaceae Wisteria_sinensis_nobackground_labels.jpg from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabaceae Fabaceae_flowers_Texas.jpg from http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fabaceae_flowers_Texas.jpg Shema_cveta_Fabaceae.JPG from http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%BE%D0%B1%D0%BE%D0%B2%D1%8B%D0%B5 Flowering_kudzu.jpg from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabaceae Common_Vetch_(Leguminosae_or_Fabaceae)_-_geograph.org.uk_-_417497.jpg from http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Common_Vetch_(Leguminosae_or_Fabaceae)_-_geograph.org.uk_-_417497.jpg

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