Taxonomy

The LPWG has been working in collaboration with the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, to update the names of legume species and their synonymy (see Taxonomy Working Group) and provide a single list of accepted legume species names. This list is curated as part of the World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP), which links to the International Plant Name Index (IPNI), underlies the Plants of the World Online website and forms the primary data source of taxonomic information in the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), Catalogue of Life and World Flora Online websites.

Species List

The most recent version of this taxonomy can be accessed through the menu on the left. The WCVP-Fabaceae species list is also available for download in structure format from the Catalogue of Life ChecklistBank and in a classic checklist format here. Unfortunately this list doesn’t include subfamily designation.

List of genera accepted by the LPWG

Below is an alphabetical list of all genera, with the subfamily designation, as currently accepted by the LPWG. This list is updated periodically to reflect the evolving taxonomy (e.g., LPWG 2017, Hughes et al. 2022, Bruneau et al. 2024). We provide links to the taxonomic pages in our verified taxonomic list, on GBIF, on the Plants of the World Online and on World Flora Online.

The current taxonomy is accessible by Browse or Advanced Search.