The Plant List — A working list for all plant species

⚠ Version 1 of The Plant List has been superseded.

You should refer instead to the current version of The Plant List.

Leguminosae

The family Leguminosae is in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the bottom of the page.

Genera in Leguminosae

A list of all accepted names in Leguminosae is available in CSV format.

Statistics

Species of Leguminosae contained within The Plant List belong to 917 plant genera.

The Plant List includes 63,525 scientific plant names of species rank for the family Leguminosae. Of these 23,535 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 10,354 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the family Leguminosae. We do not intend The Plant List to be complete for names of infraspecific rank. These are primarily included because names of species rank are synonyms of accepted infraspecific names.

Species names

The status of the 63,525 species names for the family Leguminosae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
◕ Accepted 23,535 37.0%
◕ Synonym 27,112 42.7%
◕ Unplaced 0 0%
◕ Unassessed 12,878 20.3%

All names

The status of the 73,879 names (including infraspecific names) for the family Leguminosae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
◕ Accepted 26,423 35.8%
◕ Synonym 34,228 46.3%
◕ Unplaced 0 0%
◕ Unassessed 13,228 17.9%

Of these names,

A further 1,055 name records indicate where names have been misapplied.

The confidence with which the status of the 63,525 species names recorded in The Plant List for the family Leguminosae, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Total
High confidence 18,868 21,458 0 0 40,326 63.5%
Medium confidence 3,652 4,976 0 0 8,628 13.6%
Low confidence 1,015 678 0 12,878 14,571 22.9%

The source of the species name record found in The Plant List for the family Leguminosae, are as follows:

Source of record Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Misapplied Total
ILDIS 19,879 21,893 0 18 1,055 42,845 67.4%
Tropicos 3,655 5,219 0 1,397 0 10,271 16.2%
WCSP (in review) 1 0 0 11,463 0 11,464 18.0%