Family Fabaceae  Legumes of the World

	The first authoritative illustrated guide to the world's 700 legume genera Editors Gwilym Lewis, Brian Schrire, Barbara Mackinder, Mike Lock Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK Published 2005

 

Australian legumes

Australia has a rich diversity of native legumes. The two largest groups are the wattles (genus Acacia; see below) and the "egg and bacon peas" (tribes Mirbelieae and Bossiaeeae). Australian legume researchers are working together to provide taxonomic information about the family in multiple media:

interactive keys to identify species of legumes, using LUCID software The Pea Key to all Australian pea-flowered legumes is available online Wattle, a key to Australian acacias is available on CD the Australian taxa (Mirbelieae and Bossiaeeae) in the "Legumes of the World" book see an online systematic summary and phylogeny of the legume family with special reference to Australian genera

Biology of Acacia Advances in Legume Systematics, part 11 Australian Systematic Botany vol. 16, part 1, 2003 This publication comprises proceedings from the Fourth International Legume Conference, and covers various aspects of the biology of Acacia world-wide, including systematics, ecology, genetics, utilisation, reproductive biology and interactions with microbes.

Collaborators on these projects include Mike Crisp (Australian National University), Jenny Chappill (sadly deceased, see ), Rogier de Kok (Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew) and Judy West (Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research, CSIRO), Peter Weston and Peter Jobson (Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney), and Jim Ross (Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne).

Roger Polhill's (1976) classic monograph of the Genisteae and related tribes .

© M. Crisp