Search for Legume Taxa

Search for taxa represented in the DELEP holdings. Click on the scientific name of a taxon to see its taxon profile!

Taxon Subfamilysort descending Common name(s) Growth Form Native Geographic Range No. Seed Accessions No. Living Accessions
Millettia grandis
Papilionoideae
  • umzimbeet
  • omsambeet (Afrikaans)
  • umSimbithwa (Zulu)
1 0
Mirbelia dilatata
Papilionoideae 1 0
Mirbelia pungens
Papilionoideae
  • prickly pea bush
1 1
Mucuna coriacea subsp. iritans
Papilionoideae
  • buffalo bean
  • uriri (Shona)
1 0
Mucuna gigantea subsp. gigantea
Papilionoideae
  • sea bean
2 0
Mucuna macrocarpa
Papilionoideae
  • Rusty-leaf mucuna
1 0
Mundulea sericea
Papilionoideae
  • mundulea
  • cork bush
  • mupumhamhene (Shona)
  • umsindandlovu (Ndebele)
2 2
Neonotonia wightii var. longicauda
Papilionoideae 1 0
Nissolia schottii
Papilionoideae
  • nissolia
  • Schott yellowhood
climber/vine
  • Southwestern North America
6 2
Olneya tesota
Papilionoideae
  • desert ironwood
  • palo fierro (Spanish)
  • tesota (Spanish)
tree
  • Southwestern North America
12 2
Ononis hirta
Papilionoideae 1 0
Ononis natrix
Papilionoideae
  • Yellow restharrow, shrubby rest-harrow
shrub
subshrub
  • Middle East
1 0
Ononis viscosa
Papilionoideae 1 0
Ormocarpum kirkii
Papilionoideae
  • small caterpillar pod
  • basterruspurboontjie (Afrikaans)
1 0
Ormocarpum trichocarpum
Papilionoideae
  • caterpillar pod
  • kapurupuru (Shona)
1 0
Ormosia calavensis
Papilionoideae
  • necklace tree
1 0
Otholobium hirtum
Papilionoideae 1 1
Otholobium virgatum
Papilionoideae 1 1
Oxytropis campestris
Papilionoideae
  • field locoweed
  • yellow locoweed
1 0
Oxytropis lambertii
Papilionoideae
  • purple locoweed
  • Lambert's locoweed
  • loco
9 0
Oxytropis riparia
Papilionoideae
  • Ruby Valley pointvetch
1 1
Oxytropis sericea
Papilionoideae
  • white locoweed
1 0
Parryella filifolia
Papilionoideae
  • common dunebroom
2 0
Pericopsis angolensis
Papilionoideae
  • afrormosia
  • muwanga (Shona)
1 0
Phaseolus acutifolius
Papilionoideae
  • tepary bean
4 0