Phyllota is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae. It includes 11 species of shrubs native to temperate southeastern and southwestern Australia, in the states of New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, and Western Australia. They inhabit open woodland and forest, mallee woodland, and heathland, from coastal to semi-arid and montane areas.
Aotus is an Australian genus of flowering plants, within the legume family Fabaceae. Aotus species, together with other species of the tribe Mirbelieae, are often called golden peas because of their distinctive small yellow flowers. They are endemic to Australia, occurring in all states except the Northern Territory. Aotus are evergreen species. Some are widely cultivated by gardeners for their ornamental value.
Leptosema is a genus of flowering plants from the legume family Fabaceae. According to the Australian Plant Census, species of Leptosema occur in the Northern Territory, Western Australia, South Australia and Queensland.
Eutaxia is a genus of the family Fabaceae. They are native to Australia. Most are endemic to the Southwest Botanical Province of Western Australia, but a few are distributed throughout mainland Australia. The chromosome number of Eutaxia species is typically 2n = 14 or 16.
Swainsona is a genus of about 85 species of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae, and is endemic to Australia. Plants in this genus are herbs or subshrubs with imparipinnate leaves and usually purple flowers similar to others in the family.
Gastrolobium is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae. There are over 100 species in this genus, and all but two are native to the south west region of Western Australia.
Hovea is a genus of about forty species of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae, and is endemic to Australia. Plants in this genus are sub-shrubs, shrubs or small trees with simple leaves and purple, blue or mauve flowers with a white centre. The fruit is a pod containing brown to blackish seeds. Species of Hovea occur in all Australian states, the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory.
Brongniartia is a genus of leguminous plants in family Fabaceae. It includes 63 species native to Mexico and Texas and to Bolivia. The genus was first named by Kunth after the French botanist Adolphe Brongniart.
Bossiaea is a genus of about 78 species of flowering plants in the pea family Fabaceae and is endemic to Australia. Plants in this genus often have stems and branches modified as cladodes, simple, often much reduced leaves, flowers with the upper two sepal lobes larger than the lower three, usually orange to yellow petals with reddish markings, and the fruit a more or less flattened pod.
Poecilanthe is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae. It includes 9 species of trees and shrubs native to eastern, southern, and west-central Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay, and northeastern Argentina. They grow in seasonally-dry tropical forest, woodland, thicket, and riverine forest.
Platylobium is a genus of shrubs in the legume family, Fabaceae. Native to eastern and south eastern Australia, they occur in a range of habitats of the coastal regions. The genus was first described by James Edward Smith, and is closely allied to Bossiaea, another genus within the Mirbelioids.
Isotropis is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae. The genus is endemic to Australia.
Lysiphyllum is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae. It includes nine species of trees, semi-scandent shrubs, and lianas which range from India through Myanmar and Thailand to Peninsular Malaysia, Borneo, the Philippines, Java, the Lesser Sunda Islands, New Guinea, the Bismarck Archipelago, and Australia. Typical habitats include seasonally-dry tropical forest and woodland, vine thickets, Brigalow and Gidgee scrubland, floodplains, alluvial flats, tidal forest, mangroves, river and stream banks, and occasionally dunes and coral islets. They can grow on diverse soils including calcareous, granitic, and basaltic.
Aenictophyton is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae. It belongs to the subfamily Faboideae. It contains two species which are endemic to Australia.
Harpalyce is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae. It belongs to the subfamily Faboideae. It includes 35 species of shrubs and small trees native to the tropical Americas. Their distribution is disjunct, ranging from Mexico to Nicaragua, Cuba, and northern to southeastern Brazil and Bolivia. Typical habitats include seasonally-dry tropical forest, warm-temperate humid forest, woodland, bushland and thicket, shrubland, and grassland. Most species are evergreen and flower during the dry season.
Lamprolobium is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae. It includes two species endemic to Queensland. It belongs to the subfamily Faboideae.
Muelleranthus is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae. It includes four species of herbs and shrubs native to Australia. Habitats include subtropical, mediterranean, and temperate climate shrubland, mostly on sandy soils in the central arid and semi-arid Eremaean region of the continent. It is often associated with Triodia tussock grasses. It belongs to the subfamily Faboideae.
Plagiocarpus is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae. It includes seven species of shrubs or subshrubs native to northern Australia, from the Kimberley region of Western Australia to western Queensland. Their habitats include seasonally-dry tropical to subtropical woodland, bushland and thicket, shrubland, and grassland, typically on sandstone or sandy soils. It belongs to the subfamily Faboideae.
The tribe Brongniartieae is one of the subdivisions of the plant family Fabaceae, primarily found in tropical regions of the Americas and in Australia The members of this tribe consistently form a monophyletic clade in molecular phylogenetic analyses. The tribe does not currently have a node-based definition, but morphological synapomorphies have been identified:
"stamens united by filaments in an adaxially open tube; anthers alternately long and basifixed, short and versatile; anther connective inconspicuous; septa present between seeds in pods; aril lateral lobe present and fitting into heel of funicle; fine red glandular processes present in axils; and pollen tricolporate with opercula and no definite endoaperture."
Cristonia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae. It includes two species native to Southwest Australia.
