A new subfamily classification of the Leguminosae

Legume Phylogeny Working Group 2017

Brownea longipedicellata
Detarioideae D. Cardoso

84 genera / ca. 760 species

Pantropical

Hymenaea stigonocarpa Daniella ogea Brodiguesia santosii Amherstia nobilis Aphanocalyx pteridophyllus
L.P. de Queiroz X. Van der Burgt G.P. Lewis T. Utteridge X. Van der Burgt

Cercidoideae
12 genera / ca. 335 species
Pantropical,
Cercis warm temperate
Cercis siliquastrum Bauhinia galpinii Bauhinia divaricata Piliostigma thonningii Griffonia physocarpa Schnella cupreonitens
C.E. Hughes C.E. Hughes J. Amith X. Van der Burgt X. Van der Burgt D. Cardoso

Duparquetioideae
1 genus / 1 species
West and West-central Africa

Duparquetia orchidacea
M. de la Estrella

Apuleia leiocarpa Poeppigia procera Kalappia celebica

Dialioideae D. Cardoso L.P. de Queiroz L. Trethowan

17 genera / ca. 85 species

Pantropical

Zenia insignis Distemonanthus benthamianus Dialium guianense

S. Li X. Van der Burgt L.P. de Queiroz

Cassia fistula
Caesalpinioideae G.P. Lewis

148 genera / ca. 4400 species

Pantropical, some temperate

Gleditsia amorphoides Caesalpinia cassioides Arquita grandiflora Delonix floribunda Campsiandra comosa
D. Cardoso C.E. Hughes C.E. Hughes D. Du Puy L.P. de Queiroz

Senegalia sakalava

incl. mimosoid clade E. Koenen

Inga grazielea Entada chrysostachys Lemurodendron capuronii Albizia grandibracteata Mimosa benthamii
D. Cardoso E. Koenen E. Koenen E. Koenen C.E. Hughes

Papilionoideae Cadia purpurea

W. Stuppy
Chorizema glycinifolium
M. Crisp
Chadsia longidentata
E. Koenen

503 genera / ca. 14,000 species

Caesalpinioideae Cosmopolitan
Mimosoideae
Papilionoideae Errazurizia megacarpa
C.E. Hughes
Cyclopia pubescens
S. Boatwright
Pisum sativum
C.E. Hughes

This new classification of the legume family, representing the consensus view of the international legume systematics community, addresses the long-known non-monophyly of the traditionally
recognized subfamily Caesalpinioideae, by recognizing six robustly supported monophyletic subfamilies. The former subfamily Mimosoideae is nested within the re-circumscribed Caesalpinioideae
and is referred to informally as the mimosoid clade. Legume Phylogeny Working Group (LPWG). 2017. A new subfamily classification of the Leguminosae based on a taxonomically
comprehensive phylogeny. Taxon 66: 4477.