Dataset of pollination traits in Fabales

The data presented in this paper is supporting the research article Reconstructing an historical pollination syndrome: keel flowers (Aygoren Uluer et al., 2022). We present a dataset containing information on number of species, geo-graphic distribution, floral type (keeled or not), presence or absence of fused petals, floral symmetry, presence or ab-sence of a pentamerous corolla (petals + petaloid sepals in Polygalaceae), androecium type, presence or absence of en-closed reproductive organs, presence or absence of three dis-tinct petal types (petals + petaloid sepals in Polygalaceae), flower size, corolla size (i.e., in open flower) and/or filament size (i.e., entire filament size particularly in subfamily Cae-salpinioideae), flower colour, UV reflectance, habit, height, in-florescence type and inflorescence size for 758 Fabales gen-era. The information was obtained from hundreds of appro-priate, previously published sources. This the largest mor-phological dataset constructed for Fabales to date, and the data presented in this article can be used for morphology, biogeography, ancestral state, ancestral area analyses of any Fabales clades.(c) 2022 Published by Elsevier Inc. This is an open access article under the CC BY license ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ )

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This paper presents a dataset consisting of information on the number of species, geographic distribution, floral characteristics, and other factors for 758 genera in the Fabales order. It is the largest morphological dataset constructed for Fabales to date and can be utilized for various analyses such as morphology and biogeography.