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ILDIS LEGUMES IN THE CATALOGUE OF LIFE,
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF LIFE, GBIF BIODIVERSITY PORTAL AND
OTHER MAJOR BIODIVERSITY RESOURCES ON LINE
Frank BISBY, Yuri ROSKOV
Centre for Plant Diversity & Systematics, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Reading, Reading,
United Kingdom, ildis@ildis.org
International Legume Database and Information Service (ILDIS, www.ildis.org) delivered a draft
world checklist of Leguminosae family in 2005. Latest version of the checklist (ver. 10.01, May
2007) contains information about 19,949 species with 5,118 infraspecific taxa and 28,498
synonyms. Data have been collected and scrutinised by the team of 72 authors in 25 years of the
project. ILDIS lists 1,500 native and cultivated legume species in the Mediterranean region. The
top ten richest genera are: Astragalus (215 species), Trifolium (122), Genista (93), Vicia (79),
Lotus (76), Ononis (62), Lathyrus (60), Medicago (60), Cytisus (50) and Onobrychis (45). Tribes
Trifolieae, Vicieae and Loteae have the main core of their species diversity in the region.
(Analysis is made as a part of EC 4D4Life project). ILDIS has contributed to the Catalogue of
Life (CoL, www.catalogueoflife.org) since 2000. Our legume checklist appears in ten web and
CD editions of the CoL Annual Checklist. ILDIS supplies a full taxonomic checklist with
references, common names and distribution data to the CoL. Through the Catalogue of Life
ILDIS taxonomic checklist feeds the Global Biodiversity Information Facility Data Portal (GBIF,
www.gbif.org) with species concepts, accepted names, synonymy, common names and names of
taxonomic experts. GBIF specimen data and maps are linked to ILDIS taxonomy in the portal.
Since the start of the Encyclopedia of Life in February 2008 (EoL, www.eol.org) ILDIS checklist
is used as a taxonomic backbone for aggregation of rich descriptive data including texts, images,
maps, nucleotide sequences (NCBI) and digitised bibliographic resources (BHL). Taxonomies in
IUCN, NCBI, EBI, ECBOL, LifeWatch and many other global and national Internet portals thus
use ILDIS resource directly or through the Catalogue of Life for their internal consultancies.
Keywords: Leguminosae, legumes, checklist, database, portal.
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