Fabaceae

family of plants
Taxon taxon Q44448
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Summary

Fabaceae is a taxon[1]. Fabaceae ranks in the top 0.33% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (9,361 views/month, #648 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Taxon rank: family[3]
  • Parent taxon: Fabales[4]
  • Taxon name: Fabaceae[5]
  • Commons category: Fabaceae[6]
  • Taxonomic type: Faba[7]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Fabaceae[8]
  • Described by source: Pauly–Wissowa[9], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[10], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[11], Flora partis europaeae URSS[12], The Encyclopedia Americana[13], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[14], New International Encyclopedia[15]
  • Taxon synonym: Leguminosae[16]
  • GRIN URL: https://npgsweb.ars-grin.gov/gringlobal/taxonomyfamily.aspx?id=440[17]
  • This taxon is source of: bean[18], mung bean sprout[19]
  • Taxon common name: Vlinderbloemenfamilie[20], 콩과[21], วงศ์ถั่ว[22], 豆科[23], 蝶形花科[24], metuljnice[25]
  • Different from: Caesalpinioideae[26]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[27]

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Identifiers

Fabaceae's iNaturalist taxon ID is recorded as 47122[28]. Fabaceae's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 3803[29]. Fabaceae's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 4277[30]. Fabaceae's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 5386[31]. Fabaceae's ITIS TSN is recorded as 500059[32].

Why It Matters

Fabaceae has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[33] Fabaceae is known by 188 alternative names across languages and contexts.[34]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG III. wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG III. wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG III. wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [29] ↑ . Taxonomy database of the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [32] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [30] ↑ . Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [31] ↑ . Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [17] ↑ . GRIN Taxonomy for Plants. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  20. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [20] ↑ . Nederlands Soortenregister. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  23. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [22] ↑ . panmai.com. panmai.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  25. [23] ↑ . A new list of threatened woody species in China under future global change scenarios. wikidata.org.
  26. [24] ↑ . Species cataloging of the seed plants in Zhejiang, East China. wikidata.org.
  27. [25] ↑ . The Little Flora of Slovenia (3rd ed.). wikidata.org.
  28. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  29. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  30. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [33] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [34] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 8w ago · Yapy28 · 2026-08-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wordnet 3.1 synset id → 11767245-n
    Interlingual index id → i99059
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  2. 13w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → 4OvwXr
    Image → Fabaceae flower.jpg
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