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 Accessionssort ascending No. Living Accessions
Rhynchosia minima
Papilionoideae
  • least snoutbean
  • rhynco
5 0
Astragalus lentiginosus var. australis
Papilionoideae
  • southern freckled milk-vetch
5 0
Astragalus layneae
Papilionoideae
  • Layne milk-vetch
5 0
Senegalia occidentalis
Caesalpinioideae
  • Sonoran tree catclaw
  • teso (Spanish)
  • Southwestern North America
5 1
Senna armata
Caesalpinioideae
  • spiny senna
  • desert senna
5 0
Adenanthera pavonina
Caesalpinioideae
  • red sandalwood
  • false sandalwood
  • jumbie bead
5 0
Senna obtusifolia
Caesalpinioideae
  • sickle-pod
  • coffeeweed
  • mboom (Wolof)
  • ndour (Wolof)
5 1
Senna roemeriana
Caesalpinioideae
  • two-leaf senna
perennial herb
  • Southwestern North America
5 2
Sutherlandia frutescens
Papilionoideae
  • balloon pea
  • cancer bush
  • turkey bush
5 1
Acacia brachystachya
Caesalpinioideae
  • umbrella mulga
  • turpentine mulga
tree
  • Australia
5 2
Vachellia pennatula var. pennatula
Caesalpinioideae
  • feather acacia
  • algarrobo (Spanish)
  • Southern North America
  • Central America
  • Northern South America
5 2
Vachellia nilotica subsp. kraussiana
Caesalpinioideae
  • scented-pod acacia
  • mubayamhondoro (Shona)
  • isangawe (Ndebele)
  • Southern Africa
  • East Africa
5 1
Sophora chrysophylla
Papilionoideae
  • mamane (Hawaiian)
  • Hawaii (endemic)
4 0
Vachellia cornigera
Caesalpinioideae
  • bullhorn acacia
  • swollen-thorn acacia
  • Central America
  • Southern North America
4 0
Erythrina lysistemon
Papilionoideae
  • lucky bean tree
  • kaffirboom (Afrikaans)
  • mutsodzo (Shona)
  • musinzana (Shona)
4 2
Astragalus didymocarpus var. dispermus
Papilionoideae
  • two-seeded milk-vetch
4 0
Lupinus argenteus var. rubricaulis
Papilionoideae
  • red-stemmed silver lupin
4 0
Colophospermum mopane
Detarioideae
  • mopane
  • mupani (Shona)
  • iphane (Ndebele)
4 1
Lupinus concinnus
Papilionoideae
  • scarlet lupin
4 0
Acacia colletioides
Caesalpinioideae
  • wait-a-while
4 1
Gleditsia triacanthos f. inermis
Caesalpinioideae
  • thornless honey locust
4 1
Cercis canadensis var. canadensis
Cercidoideae
  • eastern redbud
4 0
Bauhinia tomentosa
Cercidoideae
  • yellow tree bauhinia
  • mupondopondo (Tonga)
  • chisinze (Shangaan)
4 1
Acacia pravissima
Caesalpinioideae
  • Ovens wattle
  • wedge-leaved wattle
4 2
Geoffroea decorticans
Papilionoideae
  • Chilean palo verde
  • chañar (Spanish)
4 2