Well-known members of this clade include chickpeas, broad or fava beans, vetch, lentils, peas, wisteria, alfalfa, clover, fenugreek, liquorice, and locoweeds.

[3] The clade is characterized by the loss of one of the two 25-kb inverted repeats in the plastid genome that are found in most land plants.

[1][2][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13] The clade is predicted to have diverged from the other legume lineages 39.0±2.4 million years ago (in the Eocene).

[14] It includes several large, temperate genera such as Astragalus, Hedysarum, Medicago, Oxytropis, Swainsona, and Trifolium.

"[3]This clade includes edible plants such as garden peas, lentils, chickpeas, licorice, alfafa, among others.