Translingual

Proper noun

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.

Synonyms

• (clade): IRLC

Hypernyms

• (clade): Plantae - kingdom; angiosperms, eudicots, core eudicots, rosids, eurosids I - 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