Acacieae Ingeae Mimoseae Mimozygantheae Parkieae Download high resolution version (600x800, 103 KB)Unopen buds and open flowers of Calliandra houstoniana var. ... Scientific classification or biological classification is how biologists group and categorize extinct and living species of organisms. ... Divisions Green algae land plants (embryophytes) non-vascular embryophytes Hepatophyta - liverworts Anthocerophyta - hornworts Bryophyta - mosses vascular plants (tracheophytes) seedless vascular plants Lycopodiophyta - clubmosses Equisetophyta - horsetails Pteridophyta - true ferns Psilotophyta - whisk ferns Ophioglossophyta - adderstongue ferns seed plants (spermatophytes) †Pteridospermatophyta - seed ferns Pinophyta - conifers Cycadophyta - cycads Ginkgophyta - ginkgo Gnetophyta - gnetae Magnoliophyta - flowering... Classes Magnoliopsida - Dicots Liliopsida - Monocots The flowering plants (also angiosperms or Magnoliophyta) are one of the major groups of modern plants, comprising those that produce seeds in specialized reproductive organs called flowers, where the ovulary or carpel is enclosed. ... Orders see text Dicotyledons or dicots are flowering plants whose seed contains two embryonic leaves or cotyledons. ... Families Fabaceae (legumes) Quillajaceae Polygalaceae (milkwort family) Surianaceae The Fabales are an order of flowering plants, included in the rosid group of dicotyledons. ... Subfamilies Faboideae Caesalpinioideae Mimosoideae References GRIN-CA 2002-09-01 The Family Fabaceae (also as Family Leguminosae) is a grouping of plants in the Order Fabales, and one of the largest families of flowering plants with 650 genera and over 18,000 species. ...
The Mimosoideae is a subfamily of the Family Fabaceae characterized by flowers with small petals and numerous prominent stamens. This subfamily is further divided in five infrafamilies: Acacieae, Ingeae, Mimoseae, Mimozygantheae, and Parkieae. Subfamilies Faboideae Caesalpinioideae Mimosoideae References GRIN-CA 2002-09-01 The Family Fabaceae (also as Family Leguminosae) is a grouping of plants in the Order Fabales, and one of the largest families of flowering plants with 650 genera and over 18,000 species. ...
Species ~1,300; See List of Acacia species Acacia is a genus of shrubs and trees of Gondwanian origin belonging to the subfamily Mimosoideae of the Pea Family Fabaceae, first described from Africa by Linnaeus in 1773. ...
Species See text Abarema is a neotropical family of large trees from the Pea family Fabaceae. ... Species About 150 species Albizia is a genus of about 150 species of mostly fast-growing subtropical and tropical trees and shrubs in the subfamily Mimosoideae of the legume family Fabaceae. ... Species See text Calliandra is a genus in the Fabaceae family (Mimosoideae). ...
Species See text Anadenanthera is a genus of South American trees from of the Legume family, Fabaceae. ... Kanaloa is a Hawaiian genus of plant of the family Fabaceae, subfamily Mimosoideae. ... For the cocktail, see Mimosa (cocktail), and for the star in Crucis, Becrux. ... Species many, see text Mesquite trees (genus Prosopis) are found in the United States from north-central Texas and Oklahoma up to southwestern Kansas and west to southeastern California, and from southwestern Utah to the southern limits of the Sonoran and Chihuahuan Deserts in Mexico. ...
Members of this subfamily are common in lowland tropical rainforests, especially along rivers and near lakes, but have also successfully adapted to drier savannas, scrub and thorn forests, and arid desert regions in the Americas and Africa (Elias, 1981).
The classification of Mimosoideae has until recently followed closely that of Bentham (1875), who recognized five tribes based partly on aestivation of the sepals but also on androecial characters (male reproductive parts, stamens).
A phylogenetic analysis of the Mimosoideae (Leguminosae) based on chloroplast DNA sequence data.
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