If you throw a stick anywhere in the dry tropics, chances are it will hit a member of the Legume Family.
Chances are the stick is from a legume, too.
The Legume Family is by far the most important family in dry tropical habitats both in terms of species diversity and number of individuals. Acacias in the Rift Valley near Lake Magadi in southern Kenya. Enterolobium curvisiliqum in northern Argentina. Acacia drepanolobium on the Laikipia Plateau in central Kenya. 6. and 7.