Published May 22, 2025 | Version 2025v.6
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WCVP: Fabaceae checklist

Creators

  • 1. University of Campinas
  • 2. Universidad Mayor de San Simón
  • 3. Malabar Botanical Garden and Institute for Plant Sciences
  • 4. Central National Herbarium (CAL)
  • 5. Universidade Federal de Goiás
  • 6. National Herbarium of New South Wales
  • 7. University of the Western Cape
  • 8. Departamento de Botânica, Centro de Ciências Biológicas e da Saúde, Rodovia Washington Luis, km 235 - São Carlos - SP, CEP: 13565-905, Brazil
  • 9. ROR icon Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina
  • 10. Oregon State University
  • 11. University of Catania
  • 12. Université de Montréal
  • 13. Universidade Federal da Bahia
  • 14. São Paulo State University
  • 15. Comisión Nacional para el Conocimiento y Uso de la Biodiversidad
  • 16. Singapore Botanic Gardens
  • 17. Department of Accelerated Taxonomy, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, TW9 3AE, UK
  • 18. University of Reading
  • 19. Institute of Integrative Biology
  • 20. ROR icon Bharati Vidyapeeth Deemed University
  • 21. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
  • 22. Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos
  • 23. South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences
  • 24. Centro de Investigación Científica de Yucatán
  • 25. Utah Valley University
  • 26. Universidad de Córdoba
  • 27. Jardim Botânico, Rio de Janeiro
  • 28. Smithsonian Institution
  • 29. ROR icon Stockholm University
  • 30. ROR icon Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana
  • 31. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
  • 32. Botanical Research Institute of Texas
  • 33. Chair of Phytopathology, TUM School of Life Sciences, Technical University of Munich, Emil-Ramann-Str. 2, 14 85354, Freising, Germany
  • 34. Jardim Botânico do Rio de Janeiro
  • 35. ROR icon University of Gothenburg
  • 36. Saint-Petersburg State Chemical-Pharmaceutical University
  • 37. Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Iztapalapa, Av. San Rafael Atlixco 186, Leyes de Reforma 1ra Secc, Iztapalapa, 09340 Ciudad de México, CDMX, Mexico
  • 38. Instituto de Biología, UNAM
  • 39. University of Zurich
  • 40. ROR icon Universidade Federal de Pelotas
  • 41. ROR icon Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
  • 42. Kyushu University
  • 43. Instituto de Pesquisas, Jardim Botânico do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  • 44. Lomonosov Moscow State University
  • 45. Meise Botanic Garden/Université Libre de Bruxelles
  • 46. ROR icon Montana State University
  • 47. South African National Biodiversity Institute/University of Johannesburg
  • 48. Centro Universitario Regional del Litoral Atlántico
  • 49. AGROCAMPUS OUEST - Centre d'Angers
  • 50. South African National Biodiversity Institute
  • 51. Western Australian Herbarium
  • 52. Udon Thani Rajabhat University
  • 53. Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation/Embrapa
  • 54. University of Johannesburg
  • 55. Tohoku University Botanical Garden
  • 56. Iwate Medical University
  • 57. Mansarovar Global University
  • 58. University of Exeter
  • 59. Missouri Botanical Garden
  • 60. University of Antananarivo
  • 61. Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh
  • 62. Universidade Federal do Oeste da Bahia
  • 63. University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore
  • 64. Jardín de Aclimatación de La Orotava
  • 65. Instituto de Biociências
  • 66. Universidad Nacional del Nordeste/Instituto de Botánica del Nordeste
  • 67. Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul
  • 68. ROR icon Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP)
  • 69. Instituto Federal de Roraima
  • 70. Parque Estação Biológica, PqEB, Av. W5 Norte (final), Caixa Postal 02372 – Brasília, DF – CEP 70770-917
  • 71. Texas A&M AgriLife Research
  • 72. Silpakorn University
  • 73. cE3c-Centre for Ecology
  • 74. University of Cape Town
  • 75. Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, New York 14456, USA
  • 76. Guru Ghasidas Vishwavidyalaya, Bilaspur
  • 77. University of Uppsala
  • 78. New York Botanical Garden
  • 79. University of Copenhagen
  • 80. Department of Plant Science Plant Pathology, Montana State University, Bozeman MT, USA
  • 81. Arizona State University
  • 82. Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Description

A preliminary, global, community endorsed checklist for Leguminosae (Fabaceae).

 

The World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP) is a global consensus view of all known vascular plant species (flowering plants, conifers, ferns, clubmosses and firmosses). The Fabaceae subset contains names that have been peer reviewed by external experts from the Legume Phylogeny Working Group’s (LPWG) and internal experts, as well as names that are in the process of being edited and reviewed. WCVP aims to represent a global consensus view of current plant taxonomy by reflecting the latest published taxonomies while incorporating the opinions of taxonomists based around the world, and following the International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants.
 

WCVP is built on the nomenclatural data provided by the International Plant Names Index (IPNI), which is the product of a collaboration between The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, The Harvard University Herbaria, and the Australian National Herbarium, combined with the taxonomic data provided by an international collaborative programme with a large number of contributors from around the world. Our thanks go to the compilers and editors of IPNI and WCVP and in particular the thousands of users who have contributed corrections over the past decades, improving those data for the global user community.
 

We acknowledge the long term contribution of the International Legume Database and Information Service (ILDIS), which provided a species naming infrastructure that was used over many decades by the legume systematics community and which remains the foundation for the taxonomy of many legume species.
 

The WCVP Fabaceae checklist includes the data from WorldWideWattle (Maslin and Wilson, 2024). Donald Hobern is acknowledged for his technical assistance with the alignment between the two datasets.
 

Our particular thanks for the WCVP Fabaceae subset go to: Bob Allkin (Kew), Nick Black (Kew), Markus Döring (GBIF), Joe Miller (GBIF) and Carole Sinou (Canadensys, Université de Montréal) for their help setting up the project and publishing the data. The initiative to update legume species names on WCVP was led by Marianne le Roux (LPWG, South African National Biodiversity Institute), Anne Bruneau (LPWG, Université de Montréal), and Juliana Rando (LPWG, Universidade Federal do Oeste da Bahia).
 

The LPWG Taxonomy Working Group is the Taxonomic Expert Network (TEN) for the legumes in World Flora Online and Alan Elliott (TEN manager) is thanked for his assistance.

Notes

This dataset includes the World Checklist of Vascular Plants (taxonID), Plants of the World Online (within dynamicproperties), International Plant Names Index (scientificnameid), World Flora Online (wfoID) identifiers, and subfamily names. 

Genera affected by updates in this version include Abarema Pittier, Arcoa Urb., Aubrevillea Pellegr., Batesia Spruce ex Benth. & Hook.f., Calliandra Benth., Calliandropsis H.M.Hern. & Guinet, Campsiandra Benth., Ceratonia L., Chamaecrista (L.) Moench, Chidlowia Hoyle, Chloroleucon (Benth.) Record, Cojoba and Pithecellobium clades (Cojoba Britton & Rose, Ebenopsis Britton & Rose, Gretheria Duno & Torke, Havardia Small, Hesperalbizia Barneby & J.W.Grimes, Lysiloma Benth., Painteria Britton & Rose, Pithecellobium Mart., Ricoa Duno & Torke, Sphinga Barneby & J.W.Grimes), Dinizia Ducke, Entada Adans., Erythrophleum Afzel. ex R.Br., Faidherbia A.Chev., Gymnocladus Lam., partially, Ingopsis (Barneby & J.W.Grimes) Ferm, Melanoxylon Schott, Pachyelasma Harms, Piptadeniastrum Brenan, Pseudocojoba (Barneby & J.W.Grimes) Ferm, Pseudosamanea Harms, Recordoxylon Ducke, Samanea (Benth.) Merr., Sanjappa E.R.Souza & Krishnaraj, Sympetalandra Stapf, Tetrapterocarpon Humbert, Thailentadopsis Kosterm., Trigonella L., Umtiza Sim, Vouacapoua Aubl., Zapoteca H.M.Hern., Zygia P.Browne, and unplaced taxa in Crudia Schreb. (=Apalatoa Aubl.), and Lotus L. (=Dorycnium Mill.).

To date, 62% of genera have been verified.

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Dataset: 10.5281/zenodo.7460141 (DOI)

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http://sftp.kew.org/pub/data_collaborations/Fabaceae/DwCA/