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 perennial or annual herbaceous plants, which are easily recognized by their fruit and their compound, stipulate leaves

2. Angiosperm
Fabaceae
(Mimosaceae)

3. Fabaceae
• TROPICAL
• SUB-TROPICAL.
• 40 GENERA.

4. • Acacia nilotica (kikar),
• Mimosa pudica (lajvanti),
• Prosopis,
• Albizia lebbeck (shirin), etc.

5. Distinguish Features:
• Shrubs or tree,
• Pinnate compound leaves,
• stipules are modified into thorns,
• inflorescence a spikate,
• head,
• flower hermaphrodite,
• actinomorphic,

6. • hypogynous,
• calyx 5 united,
• corolla 5 united,
• stamen numerous,
• ovary is with single carpal,
• fruit is a legume.

7. Acacia nilotica (kikar or babul).
Habit:
medium-sized
evergreen
spiny tree with dark-brown bark.
The bark yields gum.

8. Stem:
• Erect,
• cylindrical,
• branched,
• woody.

9. Leaf:
• Cauline and ramal,
• stipulate,
• stipules modified into spines,
• bipinnately compound,
• pulvinus at base of leaf,
• rachis possesses glands.

10. PINNULES:
• OPPOSITE,
• SUB-SESSILE,
• OVAL,
• RETICULATE
• UNICOSTATE,
• GLABROUS.

11. Inflorescence:
• A compound cymose head.

12. FLOWER:
• Minute,
• Ebracteate,
• Sessile,
• Complete,
• Actinomorphic,
• Bisexual,
• Hypogynous, yellow in color.

13. Calyx:
• 5 sepals,
• membranous,
• gamosepalous,
• campanulate,
• slightly petaloid,
• inferior.

14. Corolla:
• 5 petals,
• Gamopetalous,
• Tubular,
• Petals yellow
• Inferior

15. Androecium:
• Stamens indefinite,
• Polyandrous,
• Filament long,
• Anthers minute,
• Basfixed
• Yellow in color.

16. Gynoecium:
• Monocaepellary,
• ovary superior
• unilocular,
• placentation marginal,
• style long,
• stigma minute
• capitate.

17. Floral Formula
K(5) C(5) A∞ G_1

18. Economic Importance of the
Family:
• Source of Pulses:
• Source of Timber:
• Source of oil:
• Source of vegetables:
• Fooder Crop:
• Source of Dyes:
Source of Gum Arabica:
Katha Source of Fibers:
Ornamental Plant:
Source of Manure:
Source of Fertility:
Source of Medicine: