Trifolieae
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The tribe
Tribe (biology)
In biology, a tribe is a taxonomic rank between family and genus. It is sometimes subdivided into subtribes.Some examples include the tribes: Canini, Acalypheae, Hominini, Bombini, and Antidesmeae.-See also:* Biological classification* Rank...

 Trifolieae is one of the subdivisions of the plant family
Family (biology)
In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...

 Fabaceae
Fabaceae
The Fabaceae or Leguminosae, commonly known as the legume, pea, or bean family, is a large and economically important family of flowering plants. The group is the third largest land plant family, behind only the Orchidaceae and Asteraceae, with 730 genera and over 19,400 species...

. It is included within the Inverted Repeat-Lacking Clade (IRLC). All of the members of this tribe are trifoliate.

The following genera
Genera
Genera is a commercial operating system and development environment for Lisp machines developed by Symbolics. It is essentially a fork of an earlier operating system originating on the MIT AI Lab's Lisp machines which Symbolics had used in common with LMI and Texas Instruments...

 are recognized by the USDA:
  • Medicago
    Medicago
    Medicago is a genus of flowering plants, commonly known as medick or burclover. The name is based on Latin medica 'alfalfa, lucerne,' from 'Median .'...

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  • Melilotus Mill.
  • Ononis
    Ononis
    Ononis is a large genus of perennial herbs and shrubs from the legume family Fabaceae. The members of this genus are often called restharrows as some species are arable weeds whose tough stems would stop the harrow...

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  • Parochetus
    Parochetus
    Parochetus is a genus of perennial herbs.-Species list:* Parochetus africanus* Parochetus communis Buch.-Ham. ex D. Don, Shamrock pea...

    Buch.-Ham. ex D. Don
  • Trifolium L.
  • Trigonella
    Trigonella
    Trigonella is a genus from the family Fabaceae. The best known member is the herb Fenugreek.-Species:The genus Trigonella currently has 37 recognized species:* Trigonella anguina Delile* Trigonella arabica Delile...

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