DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.16893166
title: WCVP: Fabaceae checklist

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.
description: 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.