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Do you want to find out basic, factual information about any legume in the world? Then LegumeWeb could provide the answer.

LegumeWeb is a service giving access via the WWW to the ILDIS World Database of Legumes. LegumeWeb offers the following features:

• Allows you to search for a species name
• Provides you with a full page of information about that species
• Enables you to find out additional information by providing links to further databases that contain data for your selected species

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Searching LegumeWeb

You can search LegumeWeb using any scientific legume name. Don't worry if you are unsure of a spelling. LegumeWeb allows wildcard searching!

The entry of a genus name will return a list of species in the genus.

The entry of a species name will take you directly to a page of information about that species. If you enter a synonym you will go directly to a page of information headed by the accepted name for that species. Some species names are ambiguous - that is the same Latin name has been used to refer to more than one different species. These names may be homonyms, misapplied names or pro-parte synonyms. LegumeWeb alerts you to ambiguous names, and allows each of the names involved to be selected individually.

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The Information You Get

Once you have entered a species name you will be taken directly to a page of information about that species.

The information that LegumeWeb provides for each species is of three types:

• The World Species Checklist Data
• The World Geographical Distribution Data
• The World Botanical Information Data

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Discover More About Your Chosen Species

LegumeWeb contains links to species in other databases. This means that once you have looked at the information the World Database has for a species, you can choose to find out more about the same species in a number of other databases. There is no need to re-enter the species name; you will be taken directly to the correct location in your selected database. Databases currently linked up to LegumeWeb in this way are:

• the TROPICOS nomenclatural database at Missouri Botanical Garden
• a database of root-nodule bacteria at RIKEN, Japan
• the Flora Europaea (ESFEDS) database at RBG Edinburgh
• the Australian Plant Name Index (APNI): nomenclatural database in Canberra
• RNG (Morocco): The University of Reading Herbarium, Moroccan collections

Click here to search LegumeWeb

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In addition to being available on the Web as LegumeWeb, the latest version of the ILDIS database (version 10) is now available, together with an innovative new program for browsing and searching the database on a Windows PC.

The ILDIS Explorer software version 1.00, complete with the ILDIS database version 10, is available on a mini-CD, which can be read in nearly all CD drives except some slot-loading drives. The identical system is also available for download, which you can run from a hard drive or copy to a CD. It requires no special installation.

The ILDIS "Legumes of Northern Eurasia Compact Disc" was created at the Komarov Botanical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia. The CD was compiled by Yu R Roskov, A K Sytin, G P Yakovlev (botanical data) and S A Jezniakowsky (software) from 1997-98.

Information contained within the database "Legumes of Northern Eurasia", published as hard copy by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (1996), was taken as a basis for the CD. During the two years following the books publication the authors accumulated a large amount of changes and additions, and the necessity arose to prepare a new edition. The CD comprises this new, revised and considerably enlarged, edition. In addition to this the CD contains the following:

• A Russian translation of the revised English checklist (Text information on 2,254 species)
• An atlas of species distribution (2,254 maps of species distribution in the territory of Northern Eurasia)
• A collection of illustrations (1,975 black and white and 535 colour images of 1,256 species, including 220 full screen colour slides)

The ILDIS Northern Eurasia CD-Rom covers the area formerly known as the USSR and Mongolia. It is now made up of the following states: Russia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belorus, Estonia, Gruzia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgizstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Tadzhikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan and Mongolia.

Further Details about the CD-ROM

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LegumeDisc provides you with your own copy of the World Database of Legumes on disc.

How Does LegumeDisc Differ From LegumeWeb?

You can incorporate LegumeDisc into your own data system, access it directly using dBase, Paradox etc, or run it with ALICE or other taxonomic software. You can use it for the following purposes:

- as a baseline on which to build your own ecological or natural products database.
- to fill the checklist component in your own pharmaceuticals, agricultural germplasm or botanic garden data systems.

In addition you can search LegumeDisc using specified criteria. For example, you may wish to download or extract subset checklists for given countries or for all those taxa that are used medicinally. You can only search LegumeWeb using genus or species names.

Depending on your needs, you may select:

• The World Species Checklist Data
• The World Geographical Distribution Data
• The World Botanical Information Data

LegumeDisc is an annual subscription service available from the ILDIS Co-ordinating Centre. Each payment brings a new edition of the database, plus a licence to use the system for a further 12 months. Different subscription levels apply to organisations proposing to use the data for their own staff at one site, or at several sites/ partners/ subsidiaries or for public service providers. ILDIS sends diskettes and supporting documentation, including precise edition number. User-support is available by email.

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ImageBase: Images of European Vetches & Peas

We are in the process of assembling a gallery of paintings and drawings of European species in the legume tribe Vicieae.

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ILDIS Regional Checklists (Africa, West Asia, etc.)
Dryland Legumes in Africa (Booklet)
Phytochemical Dictionary of the Leguminosae (2 Volumes)

Those with prices (£ = GBP = UK pounds sterling) are available from the ILDIS Co-ordinating Centre. Prices include postage and packing.

The "ILDIS" series of Regional Checklists is published by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and is available from Kewbooks.com:

Legumes of China - a check-list X.Y. Zhu, Y.F. Du, J. Wen & B.J. Bao (in press) A new volume in the series of ILDIS regional checklists is in preparation. It will be published by ILDIS at the University of Reading and available from Xiangyun Zhu at IBCAS, Beijing	Legumes of Malesia - a check-list J.M. Lock & C.S. Ford (2004) Available from Kewbooks.com
Legumes of South Asia - a check-list S. Kumar & P.V. Sane (2003) Available from Kewbooks.com	Legumes of Northern Eurasia - a check-list G.P. Yakovlev, A.K. Sytin & Y.R. Roskov (1996) Available from Kewbooks.com
Legumes of Indo-China - a check-list J.M. Lock & J. Heald (1994) Available from Kewbooks.com	Legumes of West Asia - a check-list J.M. Lock & K. Simpson (1991) Available from Kewbooks.com
Legumes of Africa - a check-list J.M. Lock (1989) Available from Kewbooks.com
Dryland Legumes in Africa - Food for thought S.K. Huxham, B.D. Schrire, S.D. Davis & H.D.V. Prendergast (1998) £5.00 This richly illustrated booklet contains descriptions of a selection of poorly known legume food plants from sub-Saharan Africa, together with notes on their use as food in different countries. View sample page	Phytochemical Dictionary of the Leguminosae ILDIS and Chapman and Hall Chemical Database (1994) (out of print) The dictionary contains more than 27372 phytochemical records in 2936 Legume taxa. Synonyms of plant names and chemical names are included, together with an extensive bibliography. View sample page

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