B.L. Turner
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Professor of Botany; Director, Plant Resources Center, University of Texas at Austin. Author of Legumes of Texas; coeditor of Chemotaxonomy of the Leguminosae.
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Fabaceae, pea family of flowering plants (order Fabales), comprising about 766 genera and some 19,580 species of trees, shrubs, vines, and herbs. Fabaceae is the third largest family of angiosperms, exceeded only by Asteraceae (aster or sunflower family) and Orchidaceae (orchid family). After…
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