Inverted repeat-lacking clade

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Inverted repeat-lacking clade
Galega officinalis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Subfamily: Faboideae
Clade: Meso-Papilionoideae
Clade: Non-protein amino acid-accumulating clade
Clade: Hologalegina
Clade: Inverted repeat-lacking clade
(Wojciechowski et al. 2000,[1] 2004[2]) Wojciechowski 2013[3]
Tribes[1][5]
Synonyms
  • Galegeae sensu lato sensu Polhill, 1981
  • IR-lacking clade
  • IRLC
  • Temperate herbaceous clade
  • THC

The inverted repeat-lacking clade (IRLC) is a

Trifolium
L..

Description

This clade is composed of five traditional tribes (

crown clade exhibiting the structural mutation in the plastid genome (loss of one copy of the ~25-kb inverted repeat region) homologous with that found in Galega officinalis L. 1753, Glycyrrhiza lepidota Nuttall 1813, and Vicia faba L., where these taxa are extant species included in the crown clade defined by this name."[3]

Uses

This clade includes edible plants such as garden peas, lentils, chickpeas, licorice, alfafa, among others.

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