inverted repeat-lacking clade

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inverted repeat-lacking clade

1. A taxonomic clade within the family Fabaceae – most of the economically important legumes, characterized by the loss of one the two 25-kb inverted repeats in the plastid genome that are found in most land plants.

• (clade): IRLC, inverted repeat loss clade

• (clade): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Plantae – kingdom; Viridiplantae – subkingdom; Streptophyta – infrakingdom; Embryophyta – superphylum; Tracheophyta – phylum; Spermatophytina – subphylum; angiosperms, eudicots, core eudicots, rosids, fabids – clades; Fabales – order; Fabaceae – family; Faboideae – subfamily; Canavanine, Hologalegina – clades

• (clade): Astragaleae (syn. Galegeae), Hedysareae, Fabeae – tribes; Glycyrrhiza, Callerya, Wisteria – genera incertae sedis
  • Astragalus, Oxytropis, Lupinus, Trifolium, Hedysarum, Lathyrus, Vicia, Onobrychis, Medicago, Swainsonia, Caragana, Ononis, Lessertia,  – selected genera

• inverted repeat-lacking clade on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Faboideae on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• inverted repeat loss clade at APWeb