2. FABACEAE: Bean or Pea Family Class: Magnoliopsida (dicot) Sub-Class: Rosidae Order: Fabales Family: Fabaceae Subfamily: 1. Papilionoideae 2. Caesalpinoideae 3. Mimosoideae

3.  400 genera  10,000 species  Found all over the world, concentrated in warm temperate regions in the Northern and Southern Hemisphere (3 rd largest family of flowering plants) http://pharm1.pharmazie.uni-greifswald.de/gallery/gal-faba.htm

4. Habit: Trees, Shrubs, Herbs Self supporting, or epiphytic, or climbing Halophytic, or mesophytic, or xerophytic What’s that mean?

5. FLOWER

6. Floral Formula: CA 5 COZ 5 A 10 or 9+1 G 1 Floral Diagram: Bonus Point Flowers: Bisexual, zygomorphic, perigynous (perianth and stamens united by bases)

7. FABACEAE FLORAL DIAGRAM

8. Calyx: 5 sepals united below tube Corolla: 5 petals (1 standard, 2 wing, 2 keel) http://www.csdl.tamu.eduhttp://www.csdl.tamu.edu ASTRAGALUS

9. Standard or Banner Wing Keel http://www.botany.hawaii.edu/faculty/carr/images/tip_tip_2666.jpg

10. Gynoecium: one simple pistil (1 carpel, 1 locule), ovary superior, marginal placentation

11. http://www.botany.hawaii.edu/faculty/webb/BOT410/Angiosperm/Adnat ion.htm PERIGYNOUS

12. HYPOGENOUS

13. http://www.botany.ha waii.edu/ EPIGYNOUS

14. Wisteria sinensis (9+1) http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/FLORA/ Androecium: 10 stamens, monadelphous (A 10 ) or diadelphous (A 9+1 )

15. INFLORESCENCE

16. Racemes Indeterminate Growth and Pedicellate http://pharm1.pharmazie.uni-greifswald.de/gallery/gal-faba.htm Erythrina speciosa

17. Indeterminate/Sessile Spikes

18. Anthyllis vulneraria Sessile Heads

19. LEAVES

20. Compound (pinnate or palmate) rarely simple, alternate ODD-BIPINNATE Gymnocladus dioicus http://www.forestry.auburn.edu/ http://www.borealforest.org/world/herbs_shrubs/whi te_clover.htm Trifolium repens PALMATE

21. http://www.bioimages.org.uk/HTML/R151135.HTM Trifolium campestre Stipules may be modified into tendrils www.botgard.ucla.edu/.../typesofshoots/ tendril/b0371tx.html Lathyrus Odoratus

22. http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/FLORA/ PULVINUS (enlarged petiole base)

23. Associated with leaf movement-in response to touch or heat Mimosa – “Sensitive Plant”

24. Roots: nodules and nitrogen fixing bacteria http://www.nmsu.edu/~molbio/plant/peas.html Rhizobia on Root Hair

25. Fruit: Simple, Capsule: dehiscent legume or a loment http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/FLORA/ LOMENT LEGUME

26. LOMENT Erythrina herbacea LEGUME http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/FLORA/i Seed: May have food reserves in the cotyledons

27. SEEDS CONT… Varying shape and size

28. Composed of embryonic axis and two cotyledons The axis has embryonic root (radicle), the hypocotyl, and the first true leaves (plumule)

29. Germination is Epigeal or Hypogeal Epigeal- Hypogeal- Cotyledons push above soil surface Cotyledons remain beneath the soil surface

30. GenusCommon Name CeratoniaCarob MedicagoAlfalfa AstragalusMilk Vetch ArachisPeanut LupinusLupines PhaseolusCommon Bean GlycineSoybean CicerChickpea PisumGarden Pea LensLentil LathyrusSweet Pea ClitoriaButterfly Pea

31. Ceratonia- Coffee and Chocolate http://www.floraguide.es/arboles/Ceratoniasiliqua.htm

32. Medicago – Livestock Feed http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/FLORA/

33. Astragalus - Aphrodisiac

34. http://www.hort.purdue.edu/ Arachis – WHAT A GOOBER!

35. Lupinus - poisonous http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/FLORA/

36. Phaseolus – Wash your face with Beans?

37. Glycine – Watch out for the oligosaccharides!

38. Cicer - Protein http://www.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/warp/album-Kosterin-8.html

39. Pisum – Anti-sex horomonic effects http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/FLORA/

40. Lens – Better than a cold shower!

41. Lathyrus – Oh Sweet Pea! http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/FLORA/

42. Clitoria – May Promote Nausea and Vomiting http://pharm1.pharmazie.uni-greifswald.de/gallery/gal-faba.htm