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and their growth habits vary from ground cover and aquatic to shrubs, climbers and trees.
Many species of trees in this family are important for their timber.
Leaves composite, seldom single, with very conspicuous stipules, in many cases ending
in tendrils or filaments. Sometimes leaves are reduced to spines. Flowers in raceme,
Calyx: 5 joined sepals, Corolla: 5 petals (One at the top, called standard; two sided ones,
called wings and two joined ones below which form the keel)
The leaves of this plant family are placed alternately up the stem, and are pinnate or
bipinnate. In some species, the leaves are able to close together at night (nyctinasty), and
in some species of Mimosa they close when touched. The roots are one of the most easily
recognizable features of this plant family. Most species have irregular nodules on the
roots which enable the plant to absorb nitrogen from the air in the soil and convert it into
the nitrogen the plant needs for growth. This enables the species to grow and produce
crops in poor soil.
Many members of the Leguminosae family have flowers of the typical 'pea' type. These
are composed of one large back petal (the standard), two side petals called wings and two
lower petals fused together to form a 'keel'. In members of the family which have other
flower shapes, there are still five petals. The flowers may occur individually, or in large
clusters.
It is the seedpods that give this family its original name. The typical pea-pod shape is a
legume. It is always a single chamber, although it may be constricted between the
individual seeds. The pod may contain just one or several seeds, and they are usually
large, and sometimes brightly colored. The coat of the individual seed is often watertight.
Each seed contains a large embryo and little endosperm, so they often germinate quickly
once the seed coat is punctured.
F. SOLANACEAE FAMILY
The seed-plants (Spermatophytae) also called
Anthophyta, have as a general characteristic:
seed-bearing flowering plants. The seeds are
contained in an ovarium, so the pollen-grains
cannot come to the ovules directly, but
fertilization takes place via the style
(Angiospermae). The development of the
embryo is by the two cotyledons
(Dicotyledoneae). There is a long-living root
and the transport-vessels are arranged into a
circle. The leaves do have distinct petioles,
are net-veined (Reticulatovenosus) and often
have small supporting leaflets. Pollination is
simultaneous. The perianth is lobbed but
grown together to some extend in calyx and
corolla (sepals and petals respectively).
Flowers mostly dorsi-ventralis with connate
filaments, regularly symmetrical,
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