Fabulous Fabaceae: the legumes
Habit: Trees, shrubs, herbs
Leaves: alternate, pinnate or palmately compound, rarely simple, stipulate
Plants: synoecious (rarely mono- or dioecious)
Inflorescence: racemes, spikes, heads, umbels, solitary, axillary
Flowers: regular or irregular, perfect or imperfect, hypanthium present or absent
Petals: 5 (0-1), distinct or lower two with bases distinct, upper part connate
Stamens: 1-many, distinct or connate, often 10 and all connate or 9 + 1 diadelphous
Ovary: 1 carpel (rarely more), ovary superior with 1 locule and 1-many marginal ovules (rarely 2 locular)
Fruit: legume, loment, or indehiscent pod