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
Indigofera sphaerocarpa
Papilionoideae
  • Sonoran indigo
  • wild indigo
shrub
  • Southwestern North America
9 3
Eysenhardtia orthocarpa
Papilionoideae
  • kidneywood
  • palo dulce (Spanish)
small tree
shrub
  • Southwestern North America
9 3
Peltophorum africanum
Caesalpinioideae
  • African wattle
  • blackwood
  • muzeze (Shona)
  • umsehla (Ndebele)
tree
small tree
  • Southern Africa
4 3
Bauhinia thonningii
Cercidoideae
  • monkeybread
  • mutukutu (Shona)
  • musekesa (Shona)
  • ihabahaba (Ndebele)
2 2
Acacia pruinocarpa
Caesalpinioideae
  • black gidgee
  • black wattle
  • western gidgee
tree
  • Australia
2 2
Acacia conferta
Caesalpinioideae
  • crowded-leaf wattle
1 2
Acacia uncinata var. humilis
Caesalpinioideae
  • gold-dust wattle
shrub
  • Southeastern Australia
1 2
Acacia rivalis
Caesalpinioideae
  • silver wattle
  • creek wattle
2 2
Albizia harveyi
Caesalpinioideae
  • sickle-leaved albizia
  • muora (Shona)
  • umbola (Ndebele)
  • Africa
3 2
Acacia craspedocarpa
Caesalpinioideae
  • leather-leaf acacia
  • hop mulga
  • broad-leaved mulga
shrub
  • Australia
6 2
Albizia julibrissin
Caesalpinioideae
  • silk tree mimosa
  • Southwestern Asia
  • East Asia
7 2
Caesalpinia pulcherrima
Caesalpinioideae
  • red bird-of-paradise
  • tavachín (Spanish)
shrub
  • Southwestern North America
  • Caribbean
10 2
Acacia viscidula
Caesalpinioideae
  • sticky wattle
1 2
Acacia brachystachya
Caesalpinioideae
  • umbrella mulga
  • turpentine mulga
tree
  • Australia
5 2
Bauhinia macranthera
Cercidoideae
  • Chihuahuan orchid tree
tree
  • Southwestern North America
1 2
Albizia sinaloensis
Caesalpinioideae
  • silk tree
  • palo joso (Spanish)
  • Southwestern North America
3 2
Acacia bivenosa
Caesalpinioideae
  • two-nerved wattle
shrub
  • Australia
1 2
Acacia stenophylla
Caesalpinioideae
  • shoestring acacia
  • river cooba
tree
  • Australia
4 2
Calliandra eriophylla
Caesalpinioideae
  • fairy duster
  • false mesquite
shrub
subshrub
  • Southwestern North America
11 2
Acaciella glauca
Caesalpinioideae
  • yellow tamarind acacia
  • Caribbean
2 2
Albizia brevifolia
Caesalpinioideae
  • mountain albizia
  • Africa
2 2
Acacia salicina
Caesalpinioideae
  • Broughton willow
  • native willow
7 2
Bolusanthus speciosus
Papilionoideae
  • tree wisteria
  • mupaka (Shona)
  • impaca (Ndebele)
2 2
Acacia sessilis
Caesalpinioideae 1 2
Acacia adsurgens
Caesalpinioideae
  • whipstick wattle
shrub
  • Australia
1 2