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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 Subfamily Common name(s) Growth Form Native Geographic Range No. Seed Accessions No. Living Accessionssort ascending
Sesbania herbacea
Papilionoideae
  • Colorado River hemp
  • peatree
  • coffee weed
6 1
Senegalia brevispica
Caesalpinioideae
  • prickly thorn
small tree
shrub
  • East Africa
  • Southern Africa
1 1
Senegalia caffra
Caesalpinioideae
  • common hook-thorn
  • umthole (Zulu)
  • mtholo (Sotho)
  • Southern Africa
2 1
Leucaena greggii
Caesalpinioideae
  • Gregg lead tree
6 1
Senegalia crassifolia
Caesalpinioideae
  • bauhinia-leaf acacia
  • Southern North America
1 1
Senegalia eriocarpa
Caesalpinioideae
  • wooly-podded acacia
  • Southern Africa
1 1
Senegalia erubescens
Caesalpinioideae
  • blue-thorn
  • gowe (Ndebele)
  • chisosampotolo (Shangaan)
  • Southern Africa
3 1
Erythrostemon palmeri
Caesalpinioideae
  • piojito (Spanish)
  • palo piojo (Spanish)
small tree
shrub
  • Southwestern North America
3 1
Senna versicolor
Caesalpinioideae 2 1
Senna sophera
Caesalpinioideae
  • algarobilla (Spanish)
2 1
Senegalia gilliesii
Caesalpinioideae
  • garabato negro (Spanish)
small tree
shrub
  • South-Central South America
6 1
Senegalia goetzei subsp. goetzei
Caesalpinioideae
  • purple-pod acacia
  • East Africa
  • Central Africa
1 1
Senegalia greggii
Caesalpinioideae
  • catclaw acacia
  • uña de gato (Spanish)
  • Southwestern North America
15 1
Faidherbia albida
Caesalpinioideae
  • apple-ring thorn tree
  • ana tree
  • kadd (Wolof)
  • mutsangu (Shona)
  • umpumbu (Ndebele)
tree
  • West Africa
  • Southern Africa
  • East Africa
  • Northern Africa
  • Southwestern Asia
3 1
Senegalia hereroensis
Caesalpinioideae
  • red-thorned acacia
  • mountain thorn
  • morufuri (Tswana)
small tree
shrub
  • Southern Africa
3 1
Senegalia modesta
Caesalpinioideae
  • phulai
  • pelosa
  • South Asia
  • Southeast Asia
2 1
Senegalia montis-usti
Caesalpinioideae
  • Brandberg acacia
  • brandbergdoring (Afrikaans)
  • Southern Africa
1 1
Senegalia nigrescens
Caesalpinioideae
  • knob-thorn
  • munanga (Shona)
  • umkhayaomhlope (Ndebele)
  • mokoba (Tswana)
  • Southern Africa
3 1
Galactia striata
Papilionoideae
  • Florida hammock milkpea
2 1
Genista stenopetala
Papilionoideae
  • leafy broom
  • sweet broom
2 1
Senegalia occidentalis
Caesalpinioideae
  • Sonoran tree catclaw
  • teso (Spanish)
  • Southwestern North America
5 1
Senna costata
Caesalpinioideae
  • ram's horns
2 1
Hoffmannseggia microphylla
Caesalpinioideae
  • small-leaved hoffmanseggia
4 1
Senna confinis
Caesalpinioideae
  • ojasén (Spanish)
2 1
Senna pleurocarpa var. angustifolia
Caesalpinioideae
  • narrow-leaf native senna
3 1