The Mirbelioids are an informal subdivision of the plant familyFabaceae that includes the former tribes Bossiaeeae and Mirbelieae. They are consistently recovered as a monophyletic clade in molecular phylogenies.[1][3][4][5][6][7][8][9] The Mirbelioids arose 48.4 ± 1.3 million years ago (in the early Eocene).[10] Members of this clade are mostly ericoid (sclerophyllous) shrubs with yellow and red ('egg and bacon') flowers found in Australia, Tasmania, and Papua-New Guinea.[11][12] 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] Members of this clade exhibit unusual embryology compared to other legumes, either enlarged antipodal cells in the embryo sac or the production of multiple embryo sacs.[3][4][13][14] There has been a shift from bee pollination to bird pollination several times in this clade.[15] Mirbelioids produce quinolizidine alkaloids,[16] but unlike most papilionoids, they do not produce isoflavones.[17] Many of the Mirbelioids have pseudoraceme inflorescences.[18]
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^Cameron BG; Prakash N (1990). "Occurrence of giant antipodals in the female gametophytes of Australian Bossiaeeae, Indigofereae, and Mirbelieae (Leguminosae)". Aust J Bot. 38 (4): 395–401. doi:10.1071/BT9900395.
^Kinghorn AD; Balandrin MF; Lin L-J (1982). "Alkaloid distribution in some species of the papilionaceous tribes Sophoreae, Dalbergieae, Loteae, Brongniartieae, and Bossiaeeae". Phytochemistry. 21 (9): 2269–2275. Bibcode:1982PChem..21.2269D. doi:10.1016/0031-9422(82)85190-X.
^Tucker SC (2005). "Floral ontogeny of Hardenbergia violacea (Fabaceae: Faboideae: Phaseoleae) and taxa of tribes Bossiaeeae and Mirbelieae, with emphasis on presence of pseudoraceme inflorescences". Aust Syst Bot. 19 (3): 193–210. doi:10.1071/SB05004.