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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
Vachellia permixta
Caesalpinioideae
  • hairy acacia
  • slender thorn
  • slapdoring (Afrikaans)
  • moselaphala (Sotho)
shrub
  • Southern Africa
3 1
Ceratonia siliqua
Caesalpinioideae
  • carob
  • St. John's bread
5 1
Senna costata
Caesalpinioideae
  • ram's horns
2 1
Acacia deanei
Caesalpinioideae
  • Deane's wattle
  • green wattle
2 1
Erythrophleum africanum
Caesalpinioideae
  • ordeal tree
  • mushati (Shona)
  • umbako (Ndebele)
1 1
Denisophytum sessilifolium
Caesalpinioideae 1 1
Aeschynomene sensitiva
Papilionoideae
  • sensitive jointvetch
2 1
Senegalia senegal var. rostrata
Caesalpinioideae
  • three-thorned acacia
  • ishikhaya (Zulu)
  • Southern Africa
2 1
Baphia massaiensis subsp. obovata
Papilionoideae
  • jasmine pea
  • sand camwood
  • umbondo (Ndebele)
1 1
Mariosousa willardiana
Caesalpinioideae
  • palo blanco
  • Southwestern North America
1 1
Acacia penninervis
Caesalpinioideae
  • hickory wattle
  • mountain hickory
1 1
Acacia wilhelmiana
Caesalpinioideae
  • dwarf nealie
  • mist wattle
  • Wilhelm's wattle
1 1
Senna lindheimeriana
Caesalpinioideae
  • Lindheimer's cassia
perennial herb
  • Southwestern North America
6 1
Senegalia brevispica
Caesalpinioideae
  • prickly thorn
small tree
shrub
  • East Africa
  • Southern Africa
1 1
Acacia drepanocarpa
Caesalpinioideae 1 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
Desmanthus velutinus
Caesalpinioideae
  • velvet bundleflower
7 1
Parkinsonia microphylla
Caesalpinioideae
  • littleleaf palo verde
  • foothill palo verde
tree
small tree
11 1
Vachellia flava
Caesalpinioideae
  • salam (Arabic)
  • Northern Africa
  • Southwestern Asia
1 1
Swainsona kingii
Papilionoideae 1 1
Acacia hammondii
Caesalpinioideae
  • Hammond's wattle
1 1
Acacia kybeanensis
Caesalpinioideae
  • Kybean wattle
1 1
Lebeckia sericea
Papilionoideae 1 1
Acacia eriopoda
Caesalpinioideae
  • Broome pindan wattle
1 1
Acacia binata
Caesalpinioideae
shrub
  • Southwestern Australia
1 1