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The Plant List
- Angiosperms
  - Leguminosae

Leguminosae

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

Statistics are at the bottom of the page.

Genera in Leguminosae

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A list of all accepted and unassessed names in Leguminosae is available in CSV format (Unicode UTF-8 encoding) .

Statistics

Species of Leguminosae contained within The Plant List belong to 946 plant genera.

The Plant List includes 67,767 scientific plant names of species rank for the family Leguminosae. Of these 24,505 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 11,633 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 67,767 species names for the family Leguminosae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	24,505	36.2%
◕	Synonym	26,973	39.8%
◕	Unplaced	60	0.1%
◕	Unassessed	16,229	23.9%

All names

The status of the 79,400 names (including infraspecific names) for the family Leguminosae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	26,832	33.8%
◕	Synonym	35,881	45.2%
◕	Unplaced	60	0.1%
◕	Unassessed	16,627	20.9%

Of the species names,

802 are recorded as a spelling variant

A further 1,048 name records indicate where names have been misapplied.

The confidence with which the status of the 67,767 species names recorded in The Plant List for the family Leguminosae, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
High confidence	18,870	21,558	0	0	40,428	59.7%
Medium confidence	4,626	4,736	0	0	9,362	13.8%
Low confidence	1,009	679	60	16,229	17,977	26.5%

The source of the species name records found in The Plant List for the family Leguminosae is as follows:

Source of record	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Misapplied	Total
ILDIS	19,874	21,972	0	30	1,048	41,876	61.8%
TICA	0	0	9	17	0	26	0.0%
RJP	0	0	1	1	0	2	0.0%
Tropicos	4,630	5,000	38	2,948	0	12,616	18.6%
WCSP (in review)	1	1	12	13,233	0	13,247	19.5%