ADA clade

The ADA clade is the earliest-branching monophyletic clade of the flowering plant subfamily Faboideae (or Papilionaceae). Evidence for this clade was sparse^[3] until recent molecular phylogenies that included basal faboid genera that previously had been poorly sampled.^[1][4]

ADA clade
Castanospermum australe
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Rosids
Order:	Fabales
Family:	Fabaceae
Subfamily:	Faboideae
Clade:	ADA clade Cardoso et al. 2012[1][2]
Tribes
Amburaneae Nakai Angylocalyceae Yakovlev Dipterygeae Polhill
Synonyms
aldinoid clade Ireland et al. 2000

Description

This clade is composed of a morphologically eclectic collection of genera.^[4] It is one of only three clades (the other two being Swartzieae and the Cladrastis clade) in Faboideae that lack the 50-Kb plastid DNA inversion that is characteristic of the Meso-Papilionoideae.^[4] The name of this clade is informal and is not assumed to have any particular taxonomic rank like the names authorized by the ICBN or the ICPN.^[2] The clade does not currently have a node-based definition and no morphological synapomorphies have been identified.