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Fabaceae Family Characteristics Overview

This document compares and contrasts four plant families: Fabaceae (legume family), Solanaceae (potato family), Brassicaceae (mustard family), and Liliaceae (lily family). It provides details on their habitat, vegetative characteristics, reproductive structures like flowers and fruits, and economic importance as food crops, spices, medicines, and ornamentals. The families are distributed worldwide and include important food crops like potatoes, tomatoes, and soybeans as well as spices, vegetables, ornamentals, and sources of medicine.

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Fabaceae Family Characteristics Overview

This document compares and contrasts four plant families: Fabaceae (legume family), Solanaceae (potato family), Brassicaceae (mustard family), and Liliaceae (lily family). It provides details on their habitat, vegetative characteristics, reproductive structures like flowers and fruits, and economic importance as food crops, spices, medicines, and ornamentals. The families are distributed worldwide and include important food crops like potatoes, tomatoes, and soybeans as well as spices, vegetables, ornamentals, and sources of medicine.

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FABACEAE SOLANACEAE BRASSICACE LILIACEAE

AKA PAPILIONOIDE AKA POTATO FAMILY AKA LILY FAMILY

HABITAT ALL OVER THE WORLD TROPICS, SUBTROPICS, WORLD WIDE


EVEN TEMPERATE ZONE

VEGETATIVE CHARACTER Trees, shrubs, herbs; root Plants mostly herbs, shrubs Perennial herbs with
with root nodules and rarely small trees underground bulbs/corms/
rhizomes

STEAM erect or climber herbaceous rarely woody,


aerial; erect,
cylindrical, branched, solid
or hollow, hairy or glabrous,
underground stem in potato
(Solanum tuberosum)

LEAVES alternate, pinnately alternate, simple, rarely mostly basal, alternate,


compound or simple; leaf pinnately compound, linear, exstipulate with
base, pulvinate; stipulate; exstipulate; venation parallel venation
venation reticulate reticulate

INFLORESCENCE racemose Solitary, axillary or cymose solitary / cymose; often


as in Solanum umbellate clusters

FLOWER bisexual, zygomorphic bisexual, actinomorphic bisexual; actinomorphic

PERIANTH tepal six (3+3), often united


into tube; valvate aestivation

CALYX sepals five, gamosepalous; sepals five, united,


valvate/imbricate aestivation persistent, valvate
aestivation

COROLLA petals five, polypetalous, petals five, united; valvate


papilionaceous, vexillary aestivation
aestivation

ANDROECIUM (9+1), diadelphous, anther stamens five, epipetalous stamen six, 3+3, epitepalous
dithecous

GYNOECIUM ovary superior, mono bicarpellary obligately tricarpellary, syncarpous,


carpellary, unilocular with placed, syncarpous; ovary ovary superior, trilocular with
many ovules, style single superior, bilocular, placenta many ovules; axile
swollen with many ovules, placentation
axile

FRUIT legume; seed: one to many, berry or capsule capsule, rarely berry
non-endospermic

SEED many, endospermous endospermous

FLORAL FORMULA

ECONOMIC IMPORTANCE 1. pulses (gram, arhar, sem, 1) Food : 1. ornamentals (tulip,


moong, soyabean) Potato (Solanum tuberosum) Gloriosa) 2. source of
2. edible oil (soyabean, Brinjal (Solanum melongena) medicine (Aloe) [Link]
groundnut) 3. dye Tomato (Solanum (Asparagus) [Link]
(Indigofera) lycopersicum) (Colchicum autumnale)
4. fibres (sunhemp) 2) Spices : Chilli (Capsicum)
5. fodder (Sesbania, 3)Medicinal :
Trifolium) 6. Belladona (Atropa belladona)
ornamentals (lupin, sweet Ashwagandha (Withania
pea) 7. medicine somniefera)
(muliathi) 4) Fumigatory : Tobacco
(Nicotiana tabacum)
5) Ornamental : Petunia
(Petunia atkinsiana)

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