Leguminosae

Lucas, Eve J., Haigh, Anna L., Castellanos, Cesar, Aguilar-Cano, José, Biggs, Nicola, Castellanos, Carolina C., Fabriani, Federico, Frisby, Susan, García, Lina, Klitgård, Bente B., Morales-Puentes, Maria Eugenia, Parra-O, Carlos, Perezescobar, Oscar, Zuluaga, Alejandro & Lewis, Gwilym P., 2023, An updated checklist of Araceae, Leguminosae and Myrtaceae of the department of Boyacá, Colombia, including keys to genera and new occurrence records, Phytotaxa 589 (2), pp. 137-178 : 144

Leguminosae

The checklist of Leguminosae of Boyacá includes 265 species (including five treated as sp., and six as aff. or cf.). The CPLC (2016) did not include specimens named to genus only, nor sp. affs., nor cfs. Taking this into account, excluding a total of 11 species listed by us with provisional identifications, there is an increase of 61 (32%) legume species for the department since publication of the CPLC (2016). Fourteen species originally recorded for Boyacá are not accepted by us here (excluded species are given at the end of the legume checklist). Fifty-seven of the 265 species are not yet confirmed as category 1 names (i.e., their inclusion in the Boyacá list is tentative); of these, 37 species are category 2 confidence rating and 20 are category 3. When comparing our list with the Boyacá legumes recorded in the CPLC we have added 34 new genus records, of which 12 are introduced genera; 12 genera were previously recorded for Colombia in the CPLC but not for Boyacá, and ten are genera recorded for Boyacá in Balcázar-Vargas et al. ’s (2000) list, but not in the CPLC ( Table 2 ). We include Clitoria as a new legume genus record for Boyacá based on our collection of C. javitensis in 2018. Collections of fruiting material of the two Colombian legume endemic genera Brachycylix and Orphanodendron were also a highlight of our fieldwork.