Introduction It is the aerial part of the vascular plant. In botany it means, the plant axis that bears buds and shoots with leaves and, at its basal end, roots. It develops from the plumule and bears branches, flowers and leaves. It is differentiated into nodes and internodes which may not be distinct in some cases. It is normally positively … Read more
1. Diagnostic features : Mostly herbs, rarely shrubs or trees, often climbing. Leaves alternate, stipulate, simple, or imparipinnately compound. Flowers bisexual, zygomorphic, corolla papilionaceous, aestivation descending- imbricate, posterior petals outermost, stamens 10 or 9, monadelphous or diadelphous, rarely free. Gynoecium monocarpellary, unilocular with marginal placentation. Fruit a legume or pod. 2. Distribution : Includes about 482 … Read more