[1][2][3] The genus contains the following species:[2] Viruses in Fabavirus are non-enveloped, with icosahedral geometries, and T=pseudo3 symmetry.

Genomes are linear and segmented, bipartite, around 23.4kb in length.

The virus exits the host cell by tubule-guided viral movement.

[1] Proposed in 1987, as the Fabavirus group, it was originally unassigned but given genus status in 1993 as a member of the Comoviridae, of the Picornavirales in 2008, and reached its current taxonomic status in 2009.

[4] The genus is named after the broad bean (Vicia faba).