Issue 71 of The Bean Bag is now available to download and read online.

The Rupert Barneby Award, named in honor of the late NYBG scientist and renowned legume expert, consists of US$2000 granted…

Summary of meeting held at IBC Madrid, 27 July 2024

Guidelines for checking legume names - please contribute !

A new higher-level classification of legume subfamily Caesalpinioideae is published!

We are excited to announce another name check-a-thon taking place within your personal workspace from 8-12 April 2024.

Issue 70 of The Bean Bag is now available to download and read online

The Rupert Barneby Award, named in honor of the late NYBG scientist and renowned legume expert, consists of US$2000 granted…

Two symposia focused on legumes are planned for the IBC. See: XX International Botanical Congress Madrid 2024

Dear legume community, We hope you are all doing well. We also hope we can see many of you at…

The Bean Bag started in 1974 on the initiative of Charles (Bob) Gunn and Richard Cowan and the first printed…

We invite all leguminologists to contribute manuscripts to the next volume of the Advances in Legume Systematics, a traditional series…

The Taxonomy Working Group has bid farewell to cumbersome Excel spreadsheets in favor of an innovative online tool, Rhakhis, modernizing…

The 8ILC Organizing Committee has selected seven Brazilian legume researchers who have contributed significantly to the advancement of knowledge about…

In 2023, two checklist versions of the WCVP: Fabaceae Checklist were published, one in June (2023v.3) and another in August…

The Organizing Committee thanks all 147 delegates from 18 countries for their participation at the 8ILC. Overall, the 8ILC was…

GBIF has introduced a new Phylogenetic Explorer on the Legume Data Portal, a project of the Legume Phylogeny Working Group….

Early bird registration for the 8ILC is open until May 6th! Please check the conference website for online registration and…

The Taxonomy and Evolution of Plants lab (TaxEP) at the Federal University of São Carlos, Brazil, has two openings for…

Issue 69 of The Bean Bag is now available to download and read online.

Marianne le Roux (SANBI, South Africa) and colleagues have recently published An expert curated global legume checklist improves the accuracy…

The Rupert Barneby Award, named in honor of the late NYBG scientist and renowned legume expert, consists of US$2000 granted…

The 2022 version of the WCVP: Fabaceae Checklist is now published on ChecklistBank and is also available from the Legume…

We are pleased to invite the global legume community to the 8th International Legume Conference (8ILC), which will take place…

Dear Bean Bag readers,

Advances in Legume Systematics 14. Classification of Caesalpinioideae Part 1: New generic delimitations has been published as a Special Issue…

We are pleased to announce that the 8th International Legume Conference will take place from 6 to 11 August 2023…

The Oasis Wildlife Botanical Garden in Fuerteventura in the Canary Islands grows many succulent plant species and has a large…

GBIF launches hosted portal service

Issue 68 of The Bean Bag is now available to download and read online.

The latest taxonomic work by the LPWG Taxonomic Working Group (LPWG TWG) has been put to good use. On gbif.org…

The Rupert Barneby Award, named in honor of the late NYBG scientist and renowned legume expert, consists of US$2000 granted…

Dear Bean Bag readers, The Bean Bag started in 1974 on the initiative of Charles (Bob) Gunn and Richard Cowan…

The LPWG met virtually on September 30th 2021 to update the community on progress with the LPWG Working Groups, to…

Marianne le Roux (SANBI) presented the community effort involved in publishing the first version of the verified legume species checklist….

Joe Miller presents an audio-poster at the iDigBio 2021 Conference!

The first community endorsed, consensus legume checklist was published in June 2021 and is now available on the Catalogue of…

Following previous volumes of Advances in Legume Systematics, a special issue of Phytokeys focusing on the classification of subfamily Caesalpinioideae…

Issue 67 of The Bean Bag is now available to download (and read!)

Dear Bean Bag readers, The Bean Bag started in 1974 on the initiative of Charles (Bob) Gunn and Richard Cowan…