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 descending
Vachellia flava
Caesalpinioideae
  • salam (Arabic)
  • Northern Africa
  • Southwestern Asia
1 1
Vachellia grandicornuta
Caesalpinioideae
  • Horned-thorn
  • Horingdoring (Afrikaans)
  • Southern Africa
1 1
Vachellia kirkii
Caesalpinioideae
  • flood-plain acacia
  • vloedvlaktedoring (Afrikaans)
  • East Africa
  • Southern Africa
1 1
Vachellia luederitzii var. luederitzii
Caesalpinioideae
  • Kalahari sand acacia
  • mokgwelekgwele (Tswana)
  • Southern Africa
2 1
Vachellia nilotica
Caesalpinioideae
  • scented-pod acacia
  • Egyptian thorn
  • West Africa
  • East Africa
  • Southern Africa
  • Northern Africa
  • Southwestern Asia
  • South Asia
1 1
Vachellia nilotica subsp. kraussiana
Caesalpinioideae
  • scented-pod acacia
  • mubayamhondoro (Shona)
  • isangawe (Ndebele)
  • Southern Africa
  • East Africa
5 1
Vachellia nilotica subsp. subalata
Caesalpinioideae
  • Scented-pod acacia
  • Egyptian thorn
  • East Africa
  • South Asia
2 1
Vachellia permixta
Caesalpinioideae
  • hairy acacia
  • slender thorn
  • slapdoring (Afrikaans)
  • moselaphala (Sotho)
shrub
  • Southern Africa
3 1
Vachellia reficiens
Caesalpinioideae
  • false umbrella thorn
  • vals haak-en-steek (Afrikaans)
tree
small tree
  • Northeastern Africa
1 1
Vachellia rehmanniana
Caesalpinioideae
  • silky acacia
  • sydoring (Afrikaans)
  • Iphucla (Ndebele)
  • Southern Africa
4 1
Vachellia sieberiana
Caesalpinioideae
  • paperbark acacia
  • umbrella thorn
  • sandanduur (Wolof)
  • West Africa
  • East Africa
  • Southern Africa
4 1
Vachellia tortilis subsp. heteracantha
Caesalpinioideae
  • umbrella thorn
  • umsasane (Zulu)
  • mushu (Sotho)
  • moshu (Tswana)
  • Southern Africa
2 1
Vachellia tortilis subsp. spirocarpa
Caesalpinioideae
  • umbrella thorn
  • Southern Africa
  • East Africa
1 1
Vachellia xanthophloea
Caesalpinioideae
  • fever tree
  • Naivasha thorn
  • jelenga (Shangaan)
  • East Africa
  • Southern Africa
2 1
Xeroderris stuhlmannii
Papilionoideae
  • wing pod
  • mudzungu (Shona)
  • umthundulu (Ndebele)
1 1
Acacia adsurgens
Caesalpinioideae
  • whipstick wattle
shrub
  • Australia
1 2
Acacia ashbyae
Caesalpinioideae
  • Ashby's wattle
shrub
  • Southwestern Australia
2 2
Acacia bivenosa
Caesalpinioideae
  • two-nerved wattle
shrub
  • Australia
1 2
Acacia brachystachya
Caesalpinioideae
  • umbrella mulga
  • turpentine mulga
tree
  • Australia
5 2
Acacia citrinoviridis
Caesalpinioideae
  • black mulga
  • river jam
2 2
Acacia conferta
Caesalpinioideae
  • crowded-leaf wattle
1 2
Acacia craspedocarpa
Caesalpinioideae
  • leather-leaf acacia
  • hop mulga
  • broad-leaved mulga
shrub
  • Australia
6 2
Acacia cyclops
Caesalpinioideae
  • western coastal wattle
2 2
Acacia heteroclita
Caesalpinioideae 1 2
Acacia kempeana
Caesalpinioideae
  • wanderrie wattle
  • witchetty bush
shrub
  • Australia
3 2