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Bossiaeeae
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Bossiaeeae

The Mirbelioids are an informal subdivision of the plant family Fabaceae that includes the former tribes Bossiaeeae and Mirbelieae. They are consistently recovered as a monophyletic clade in molecular phylogenies. The Mirbelioids arose 48.4 ± 1.3 million years ago (in the early Eocene). Members of this clade are mostly ericoid (sclerophyllous) shrubs with yellow and red ('egg and bacon') flowers found in Australia, Tasmania, and Papua-New Guinea. The name of this clade is informal and is...

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7 branches of this tribe, most-observed first

Bossiaea

genusBossiaea

Platylobium

genusPlatylobium

Goodia

genusGoodia

Muelleranthus

genusMuelleranthus

Aenictophyton

genusAenictophyton

Paragoodia

genusParagoodia

Ptychosema

genusPtychosema

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 737822.