The Fabaceae Family is split into 6 Subfamilies (Faboideae, Caesalpinioideae, Dialioideae, Duparquetioideae, Cercidoideae & Detarioideae).
Better question, where do the Fabaceae Supertribes start & end? Subfamily Faboideae is big enough for Supertribe Classification no?
Both Brassicaceae (Mustard Family) & Asteraceae (Sunflower Family) have supertribes but why doesn’t Fabaceae (Bean Family)?
Here’s the study : https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.12705/661.3
Because the authors of the study chose not to divide the family into subtribes – e.g. maybe they decided it was not useful, or the relationships between the lower taxa could be represented adequately without a subtribe level.
You are assuming that taxonomic ranks have some inherent meaning that is used consistently for all taxa. This is not the case. They are categories – i.e., artificial constructs created by humans as a way to represent diversity that often doesn’t fit into nice little boxes.
Subtribes were divided & split apart, just no Supertribe classification laid out.
It’s kind of a mess looking at the super Huge Faboideae Subfamily.
I’m trying to classify Supertribes of the Faboideae Subfamilies. Not sure which Tribes to put into Which Supertribes.
Supertribes rank has the “odae” suffix at the end right?
yea… tell me about it. Species in 1 Family don’t weight the same in another family. For crying out load, Solanum could be split into many genera & potentially 2 Tribes (With Subtribes), yet everything lumped into 1 genus.
The highly polymorphic single species Cucurbita pepo contains more diversity than 5 species complex Blackberry species that look nearly identical.
Indeed! Lots of the currently circumcised Tribes are Polyphyletic & appear all over the place. There probably will be left over Basal Faboideae (As is often a trend among Plant Phylogeny).
