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
Acacia patagiata
Caesalpinioideae
  • salt gully wattle
1 2
Bolusanthus speciosus
Papilionoideae
  • tree wisteria
  • mupaka (Shona)
  • impaca (Ndebele)
2 2
Zapoteca formosa subsp. schottii
Caesalpinioideae
  • fairy duster
  • tasopolo (Spanish)
shrub
  • Southwestern North America
2 2
Acacia merinthophora
Caesalpinioideae
  • whispery wattle
1 2
Acacia pravissima
Caesalpinioideae
  • Ovens wattle
  • wedge-leaved wattle
4 2
Colutea istria
Papilionoideae
  • bladder senna
shrub
  • Southwestern Asia
3 2
Desmodium cinerascens
Papilionoideae
  • spiked ticktrefoil
  • shrubby tick clover
  • alma
perennial herb
  • Southwestern North America
7 2
Parkinsonia praecox subsp. praecox
Caesalpinioideae
  • palo brea
  • brea
6 2
Sophora tomentosa
Papilionoideae
  • seacoast laburnum
  • yellow sophora
  • silverbush
2 2
Olneya tesota
Papilionoideae
  • desert ironwood
  • palo fierro (Spanish)
  • tesota (Spanish)
tree
  • Southwestern North America
12 2
Senegalia fleckii
Caesalpinioideae
  • blade thorn
  • mhahu (Tswana)
  • Southern Africa
3 2
Mimosa asperata
Caesalpinioideae
  • Berlandier's mimosa
shrub
  • Southwestern North America
  • Central America
2 2
Rhynchosia texana
Papilionoideae
  • Texas snoutbean
  • trailing narrow-leaf cologania
perennial herb
  • Southwestern North America
3 2
Cercis canadensis var. mexicana
Cercidoideae
  • Mexican redbud
3 2
Vachellia caven
Caesalpinioideae
  • espino (Spanish)
  • espino caven (Spanish)
  • espinillo (Spanish)
  • churqui (Spanish)
  • aromito (Spanish)
  • South-Central South America
13 2
Senna roemeriana
Caesalpinioideae
  • two-leaf senna
perennial herb
  • Southwestern North America
5 2
Acacia brachystachya
Caesalpinioideae
  • umbrella mulga
  • turpentine mulga
tree
  • Australia
5 2
Tephrosia uniovulata
Papilionoideae 1 1
Mimosa palmeri
Caesalpinioideae
  • chopo
2 1
Acacia spectabilis
Caesalpinioideae
  • mudgee
  • glory wattle
3 1
Chamaecrista desvauxii var. glauca
Caesalpinioideae 1 1
Astragalus cerasocrenus
Papilionoideae
  • astragal
  • wax tooth
  • gum tragacanth
3 1
Acacia dealbata
Caesalpinioideae
  • silver wattle
2 1
Leucaena greggii
Caesalpinioideae
  • Gregg lead tree
6 1
Vachellia tortilis subsp. heteracantha
Caesalpinioideae
  • umbrella thorn
  • umsasane (Zulu)
  • mushu (Sotho)
  • moshu (Tswana)
  • Southern Africa
2 1