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28 February 2023

Fully funded PhD in Mimosa morphological evolution

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

PhD Position
12 February 2023

Bean Bag – Issue Number 69

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

Bean Bag
19 January 2023

A recent publication highlights the work of the legume taxonomy community

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

Checklist
19 January 2023

Rupert Barneby Award, New York Botanical Garden - Funding Opportunity

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

Call
25 November 2022

Fabaceae checklist 2022 now published

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

Checklist
30 November 2022

8th International Legume Conference - registration is now open

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

conferences
16 November 2022

Call for contributions to the 2022 Bean Bag - Issue Number 69

Dear Bean Bag readers,

Call
25 August 2022

New Generic Delimitations in Caesalpinioideae

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

publications
12 July 2022

Save the date! 8th International Legume Conference in Brazil

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

conferences
11 July 2022

Delonix collection in Oasis Wildlife Botanical Garden in Fuerteventura, Canary Islands

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

announcements
10 June 2022

Hosted Portal Call, GBIF - Collection Portal Opportunity

GBIF launches hosted portal service

Call
21 April 2022

Bean Bag – Issue Number 68

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

Bean Bag
20 December 2021

Updated Legume Taxonomic Checklist Now Used in GBIF

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

Checklist
16 December 2021

Rupert Barneby Award, New York Botanical Garden - Funding Opportunity

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

Call
16 November 2021

Call for contributions to the 2021 Bean Bag - Issue Number 68

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

Call
09 November 2021

The LPWG met virtually on September 30th 2021 to present updates in research and officially launch our new Legume Data Portal!

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

Announcement
08 November 2021

The publication of the legume species checklist presented at the TDWG conference in October 2021.

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

Announcement
17 September 2021

The Legume Data Portal presented at the iDigBio Conference

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

Announcement
17 September 2021

A first community consensus legume checklist has now been published

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

Species list
30 April 2021

Call for the special Phytokeys Issue: Advances in Legume Systematics 14. Classification of subfamily Caesalpinioideae (Leguminosae)

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

Call
21 April 2021

Bean Bag – Issue Number 67

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

Bean Bag
03 February 2021

Call for contributions to the 2020 Bean Bag – Issue Number 67

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

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