inverted repeat-lacking clade
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Etymology
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Proper noun
inverted repeat-lacking clade
- 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.
Synonyms
- (clade): IRLC, inverted repeat loss clade
Hypernyms
- (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
Hyponyms
- (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, Caragana - selected genera
References
inverted repeat-lacking clade on Wikipedia.Wikipedia 
Faboideae on Wikispecies.Wikispecies - inverted repeat loss clade at APWeb