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
Senna artemisioides subsp. oligophylla
Caesalpinioideae
  • limestone cassia
  • oval-leaf cassia
3 2
Tara cacalaco
Caesalpinioideae
  • cascalote
2 2
Acacia conferta
Caesalpinioideae
  • crowded-leaf wattle
1 2
Senna pleurocarpa var. pleurocarpa
Caesalpinioideae
  • chocolate bush
  • chocolate cassia
  • firebush
  • native senna
4 2
Acacia notabilis
Caesalpinioideae
  • notable wattle
4 2
Mimosa asperata
Caesalpinioideae
  • Berlandier's mimosa
shrub
  • Southwestern North America
  • Central America
2 2
Senna birostris var. arequipensis
Caesalpinioideae 1 2
Acacia rivalis
Caesalpinioideae
  • silver wattle
  • creek wattle
2 2
Vachellia pennatula var. pennatula
Caesalpinioideae
  • feather acacia
  • algarrobo (Spanish)
  • Southern North America
  • Central America
  • Northern South America
5 2
Acacia heteroclita
Caesalpinioideae 1 2
Vachellia brandegeana
Caesalpinioideae
  • Baja California acacia
  • Southwestern North America
1 2
Havardia pallens
Caesalpinioideae
  • tenaza
6 2
Prosopis velutina
Caesalpinioideae
  • velvet mesquite
14 2
Parkinsonia florida subsp. florida
Caesalpinioideae
  • blue palo verde
16 2
Bauhinia macranthera
Cercidoideae
  • Chihuahuan orchid tree
tree
  • Southwestern North America
1 2
Medicago arborea
Papilionoideae
  • tree alfalfa
6 2
Acacia leiocalyx
Caesalpinioideae
  • lamb's tail wattle
  • black wattle
  • curracabah
2 2
Vachellia karroo
Caesalpinioideae
  • sweet thorn
  • Karoo thorn
  • soetdoring (Afrikaans)
  • umunga (Zulu)
  • isinga (Ndebele)
  • Southern Africa
7 2
Prosopis glandulosa var. torreyana
Caesalpinioideae
  • western honey mesquite
7 2
Senegalia roemeriana
Caesalpinioideae
  • Roemer's acacia
small tree
shrub
  • Southwestern North America
8 2
Mimosa quadrivalvis var. latidens
Caesalpinioideae
  • sensitive briar
3 2
Vachellia schaffneri var. bravoensis
Caesalpinioideae
  • Schaffner acacia
  • twisted acacia
  • Southern North America
2 2
Acacia sessilis
Caesalpinioideae 1 2
Cercis canadensis var. mexicana
Cercidoideae
  • Mexican redbud
3 2
Acacia adsurgens
Caesalpinioideae
  • whipstick wattle
shrub
  • Australia
1 2