Diocleae
| Diocleae | |
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| Camptosema grandiflora | |
| Scientific 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: | Millettioids |
| Tribe: | Diocleae (Benth. 1865) Hutch. 1964 |
| Genera | |
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The tribe Diocleae is one of the subdivisions of the plant family Fabaceae.
The Diocleae can be distinguished from other members of Fabaceae by
[A] combination of features involving the woody vine or shrub habit, stipellate trifoliolate leaves, nodose pseudoraceme inflorescence, flowers with a distinct hypanthium, and calyx with lanceolate lobes, the lower lobe longer than the remaining (except in the specialized resupinate flowers of Canavalia).