a *./ 231, A newsletter to promote communication among research scientists concerned with the systematics of the Leguminosae/Fabaceae Number 33 ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ May 1991 From the Editors Charles R. Gunn and Joseph H. Kirkbride, Jr. The BB is designed to promote communication among research scientists concerned with legume systematics. To achieve this goal the BB is issued in May and November of each year and features six columns: From the Editors, News (meetings, major events, announcements, etc.), Latin American Legume Report, Nodulation and Nitrogen Fixation (new nodulation records). Gleanings, and Recent Legume Literature. Data in the Gleanings column are derived from questionnaire sheets which Readers complete and return. If you have news about legume systematics, send it to us for this column. The Recent Legume Literature column contains published research papers of specific interest to BB Readers. Recent is defined as one year old. We rarely will publish a citation that is more than one year old. Specific interest to BB Readers is defined as research papers of interest to a world wide group of legume systematic botanists. We encourage Bean Bag (BB) Readers to send us notices, observations, etc. Diacritical marks can now be placed in the BB. If such marks should be placed in your name, address, publications, etc., please let us know. We are especially interested in correcting our Directory. Thank you. An electronic copy of The Bean Bag can be obtained from TAXACOM, a free online service for biosystematics and biogeography at the Buffalo Museum of Science, Buffalo, New York, USA. The system operator is Dr. Richard FI. Zander. TAXACOM is available 24 hours daily at telephone number 716-896-7581 using 2400/1200/300 bps, 8 data bits, 1 bit stop, and no parity. Outside of the USA use CCITT at 2400 bps, otherwise use Bell protocols. Bean Bag address: SB&ML, Bldg. 265, BARC-East Belts ville, MD 20705-2350 USA 2 Bean Bag Number 33 THIRD INTERNATIONAL LEGUME CONFERENCE to be held at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, England on 12-17 July 1992 EVOLUTION OF THE LEGUMINOSAE For information write to Dr. R.M. Polhill, Convenor, Herbarium, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, Surrey TW9 3AE England. Fax: 081 948 1197 or Telephone: 081 940 1171. Please see last loose page of this BB for a registration form. Please send this form directly to Polhill. Program development and registrations are on schedule. Additions to program: Professor P.G. Waterman has agreed to contribute to the phytochemistry session. Dr. N. Prakesh is being asked to give a paper on embryology. Subsidiary meetings: Dr. Frank Bisby is arranging for an ILDIS workshop on Tuesday July 7 to Thursday July 9 at the University of Southampton. Jacques Vassal is arranging an IGMS (mimosoid group) meeting at Kew/Digby Stuart College on Monday July 20 to Tuesday July 21. Correction to Circular 5, item 3: the First European Conference of Grain Legumes (June 1-3, 1992) will be held in Angers, France, not in Norwich, UK. For more information write to Secretariat, UNIP, 12 avenue George V, 75008 Paris, France. The Second International Food Legume Research Conference will be held in Cairo, April 12- lb, 1992. For more information write to IFLRC-II, Crop Development Centre, University of Saskatchwan, Saskatoon, Saskatchwan S7N 0W0 Canada. Gleanings AINOUCHE is studying genetic diversity and needs seeds of Lathyrus angustifolia var. reticulatus and var. brachystachys (small seeded forms) from Portugal, Spain, Morocco, Italy, etc. ALBUQUERQUE is working with medicinal plants of Brazil and studying germination of native legumes: Copaifera, Derris, Dipterix, and Hymenaea. BAUDOIN needs seeds of Phaseolus coccineus, P. lunatus, and P. polyanthus. BERNHARDT is studying the competition for pollinating bees between Hibbertia spp. (Dilleniaceae) and co-blooming legumes. BISBY with Munyenyembe and Rushforth needs seeds and/or tubers of Dolichos for a taxonomic revision and economic assessment. Offers seeds of wild Vida and Lathyrus from Vicieae Germplasm Collection. BRENNER needs advice on controlled pollination of Coronilla and Dalea and offers seeds from the National Germplasm System. CHUNG is studying petal morphology of the Sophora group, needs flowers of Neoharmsia species from Madagascar, and offers legume plants from Korea. May 1991 3 CORBY needs 5 or more seeds of aerial chasmogamous flowers and subterranean cleistogamous flowers of Amphicarpaea bracteata. COWAN is working on Acacia: Juli florae. DEVINE is mapping Glycine max genome. FAGG is working on the genetic variation of Acacia nilotica , A. Senegal , A. tortilis, and Faidherbia albida. Needs well documented seeds of any African Acacia spp. Offers seeds of the above. FERGUSON is re-evaluating pollen of tribe Sophoreae and continues study of pollen of tribe Loteae with M.J. Diez (Sevilla). GIGA is working with Phaseolus bruchid ecology, biology, and control. Needs Phaseolus and Vigna bruchids. GILL is germinating seeds and evaluating seedlings of Bauhinia and Calliandra protoricensis. Needs tropical wood samples. GREGORY needs copies of publications with articles on the velvetbean caterpillar, Anticarsia gemmatalis , and its host plants in Central America, South America, and Caribbean Archipelagos. Offers copies of publications deposited in library of Louisiana State University Library. GRUM is conducting interspecific hybridization and field trials on Pachyrhizus, needs seeds of all species (especially Central and South American land races), and offers seeds from 150 acessions from Central and South America and Asia. GUNN is distributing with this BB a copy of USDA Technical Bulletin 1715: Fruits and Seeds of Genera in the Subfamily Caesalpinioideae (Fabaceae). This the second in a tripartite series of Technical Bulletins on legume seed-fruit morphology. The first one was T.B. 1681 covers subfamily Mimosoideae. GUNN and RITCHIE (with illustrations by Karen Parker and Jim Plaskowitz) are databanking DELTA with seed and fruit morphological characters for genera in subfamily Faboideae. We expect to have the plates and databanking completed during 1993. HANG (new Reader) is studying Indigofera spp. from Yunnan Province, P.R.C. JINSHUANG has a paper on Sphaerophysa from China in press, is working on the floristic character of Papilionaceae from China, needs Trifolieae from Northern Hemisphere, and offers same from Northern China. KANG in collaboration with Dr. Primack is studying seed size variation among legume species: the effects of phylogeny, and in collaboration with BAWA the outcome of sexual selection. KIRKBRIDE needs viable seeds of taxa in the tribes Loteae and Coronilleae. KLITGAARD has two papers in press on Brownea and Browneopsis. Is working on Platymiscium for Flora Neotropica and for her dissertation. Will be in Ecuador in autumn of 1991. Please note this correction: Klitgaard is not working on Macrolobium. KOPTUR with Carl Weekley is studying gall-forming insects on Pithecellobium in south Florida. KUMAR is interested in genetics of Pisum sativum and legume- Rhizobium symbiosis. Needs wide Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2016 with funding from BHL-SIL-FEDLINK https://archive.org/details/beanbag3319unse 4 Bean Bag Number 33 range of Pisum germplasm. MASLIN with Peter Brain: Immunology studies in Australian Acacia spp., and with WEDER: Proteinase inhibitor studies in Australian Acacia spp. MERCADO (new Reader) is working with legume cytology, specializing in Phaseolinae and needs seeds of same. MISSET is studying phylogeny of Ulex by cross immunoelectrophoresis and western blot. Needs seeds of U. erinaceus (from Cado Sagres, Portugal) and U. pariflorus funkii and par\iflorus (from Spain and France). MOSJIDIS has a paper in the Annals of Botany on polyphenols and condensed tannins in Lespedeza (s.l.). MURRAY (new Reader) is working with cytogenetics and interspecific hybridization in Lathyrus, needs Lathyrus , and offers same. NYAWUAME is surveying western Nigerian legumes for ethnomedicinal properties, needs seeds of temperate legumes, and offers legume seeds from tropical West Africa. PANDEY is working on the legumes of Bihar, India, needs seeds of Lotus spp. and offers seeds and voucher speciments of Indian legumes. POKLE (new Reader) is studying Alysicarpus and needs plant material and seeds of genus. Offers plant material from India. RABAA (new Reader) is hybridizing Vigna spp., needs V. unguiculata seeds from West Africa, and offers Algerian seeds of same. RICO-ARCE has a paper in press on some genera of the Ingeae, needs herbarium sheets of Pithecellobium s.l. and neotropical Acacia and Albizia (please send sheets to Kew), and offers identifications. ROSK.OV is monographing Lupinaster and needs herbarium material of North American Tri folium such as T. andersotiii, T. attenuatum, T. gymnocarpon, T. lemmonii, T. macrocephalum , T. monoense, T. nannum, T. thompsonii and offers a Caucasian endemic ( T . polyphyllus ) and herbarium specimens of other Caucasian legumes. SOUTHON is contributing phytochemical data to ILDIS. STEIN needs seeds of African Cynometra spp. STEINER is studying interploidy pollen competition in Tri folium ambiguum. STIRTON needs fresh seed of any species of Ateleia or Acosmium (Sophoreae) for seedling studies. SYTIN (new Reader) has two papers in press on Astragalus and notes that " Astragalus (an enormous genus) is remarkable in its biological diversity, which could be explained in terms of N.I. Vavilov’s concept of a species system. The speciation cannot be reduced to a statistical microevolution process on a population level. Even local populations could be extremely variable in terms of phenetic characters, cryptic forms of polymorphism, seasonal races, and modifications of life forms resulting May 1991 5 from adaptation to the diverse environment." Offers duplicates from Russia (Caucasus, Ural, Ukraina, and Volga). THOTHATHRI is conducting SEM studies of seed coat morphology of species in Millettieae and Cajaneae, needs seeds of Asian species of same, and offers recent publications on Indian legumes. TINDALE is contributing Acacia to Flora of Australia and Glycine to Flora of New South Wales (volume 2). TURNER (B.L.) with C.J. Chen is revising Thermopsis for North America. VANDERBORGHT needs seeds of wild species of Phaseolus and Vigna, and offers small quantities of seeds of 150 taxa of Phaseoleae, mainly Phaseolus and Vigna with passport data if requested. VAN DER MAESEN needs Dunbaria and Flemingia and offers duplicates of African collections: cultivars of various crops. VIJAY KUMAR needs mature seeds of Alysicarpus, Atylosia , Millettia, Rhynchosia , Sesbania, and Zornia. Offers seeds of Indian Indigofera spp. VIRASORO is studying the species biology of Caesalpinioideae: Cercidium (2 spp.), Dalbergia (1 sp.), Delonix (1 sp.), and Gleditsia (1 sp.); Mimosoideae: Acacia (6 spp.), Cathorium (1 sp.), Piptadenia (1 sp.), Prosopis (4 spp.), and Prosopidastrum (1 sp.); and Faboideae: Arachis (1 sp.). Astragalus (1 sp.), Canavalia (1 sp.), Desmodium (1 sp.), Glycine (1 sp.), Hedysarum (1 sp.), Lathyrus (1 sp.), Macroptilum (2 spp.), Melilotus (1 sp.), Orobus (1 sp.), Spartium (1 sp.), Tri folium (1 sp.), and Vicia (1 sp.). WHITE needs a wide diversity of legume crops and fast-growing leguminous trees (for fuel, wood, forage, and soil improvement) and their wild relatives. Offers a wide range of many species (mostly crops and their wild relatives) in diverse families. Eds. note: This is a excellent offer. WOJCIECHOWSKA has a paper on Pisum morphology and anatomy in the Proceedings of International Symposium (Leningrad). WOLKO is studying both the taxonomy and genetics of Lupinus based on isozyme polymorphism, needs seeds of South American lupines, and offers database on Pisum (2500 accessions) and Old World Lupinus (1000 accessions) including germplasm. ZHANG (new Reader) is preparing a cladistic analysis of Baubinia and other legumes. Also studying Cylindrokelupha and Pueraria. Needs Bauhinia and American Cercis and offers Chinese Bauhinia. RECENT LEGUME LITERATURE Elds. Note: Author names in all capital letters are BB Readers. Their full names and addresses are listed in the November 1989 BB Directory. Correspondence about their articles should be sent directly to them. BARNEBY and GRIMES. 1990. Orphanodendron, a new genus of caesalpinioid Leguminosae from northwestern Colombia. Brittonia 42:249-253. BAUDOIN. 1990. L’amelioration de Phaseolus lunatus L. en zones tropicales. 6. Reservoirs genetiques, travaux de selection, conclusions et perspectives. Bull. Rech. Afr. Gembloux 25(4):395-442. . . 4 6 Bean Bag Number 33 BERNHARDT. 1990. Anthecology of Schrankia nuttallii (Mimosaceae) on the tallgrass prairie. PI. Syst. Evol. 170:247-255. BRENNER and R. Clark. 1989. Special purpose legumes at the Ames, Iowa Plant Introduction Station. Progress Report Clovers and Special Purpose Legume Research 22:35. CHUNG and S. Lee. 1990. A palynotaxonomic study of Sophora group. Kor. Jour. Plant Tax. 20(4):257-282. In Korean. Coradin, L. and SCHULTZE-KRAFT. 1990. Germplasm collection of tropical pasture legumes in Brazil. Trop. Agri. (Trinidad) 67(2):98-100. COWAN and MASLIN. 1990. A new species of Acacia from Western Australia. Western Australian Naturalist 18(3):79-82. COWAN and MASLIN. 1990. Acacia miscellany 1. Some oligoneurous species of Acacia (Leguminosae: Mimosoideae: Section Plurinerves) from Western Australia. Nuytsia 7(2): 183- 199. COWAN and MASLIN. 1990. Acacia miscellany 2. Species related to A. deltoidea (Leguminosae: Mimosoideae: Section Plurinerves ) from Western Australia. Nuytsia 7(2):201-208. COWAN and MASLIN. 1990. Acacia miscellany 3. Some new microneurous taxa of Western Australia related to A. multilineata (Leguminosae: Mimosoideae: Section Plurinerves). Nuytsia 7(2):209-219. Cronk, Q.C.B. 1990. The name of the pea: A quantitative history of legume classification. New Phytol. 116:163-175. Siees of genera. Curry, S. and MASLIN. 1990. Cunningham’s collecting localities while botanist on Lt. P.P. King’s survey of coastal Australia, Dec. 1817 to April 1822. In P.S. Short (ed.) History of Systematic Botany in Australasia, pp. 137-148. Australian Systematic Botanical Society. DEVINE, L.D. Kuykendall, and J.J. O’Neill. R jA allele in soybean represses nodulation by chlorosis- inducing bradyrhizobia classified as DNA homology group II by antibiotic resistance profiles. Theor. Appl. Genet. 80:33-37. DEVINE and J.J. O’Neill. 1989. Genetic allelism of nodulation response genes Rj 1, Rj2, and Rj4 in soybean. Crop Sci. 29:1347-1350. Dobovik, O.N. and D.S. Dzybov. 1990. Geographical analysis of species of genus Astragalus (Fabaceae) of Crimea-Novorossiysk Province and their florogenetical connections. Bot. Zh. 75(2):170-180. FAGG and A. Graves. 1990. Acacia tortilis 1922-1988. CABI/OFI Annotated bibliography No. F41. CAB International, Wallingford, Oxon, UK. FAGG and A. Graves. 1990. Acacia nilotica 1869-1988. CABI/OFI Annotated bibliography No. F42. CAB International, Wallingford, Oxon, UK. FERGUSON. 1990. Significance of some pollen morphological characters of the tribe Amorpheae and the genus Mucuna (tribe Phaseoleae) in the biology and systematics of subfamily Papilionoideae (Leguminosae). Rev. Palaeobot. & Palynol. 64:129-136. . May 1991 7 FERGUSON and J.J. Skvarla. 1991. Pollen morphology of the tribe Swartzieae (subfamily Papilionoideae: Leguminosae). 2. The genera Aldina Endlicher and Swartzia Schreber and systematic conclusions. Rev. Palaeobot. & Palynol. 67:153-177. GILL, H.I. Onyibeand, and A.E. Evivie. 1990. Germination biology of Mimosa pigra (Leguminosae). Nigerian Jour, of Weed Sci. 3:11-18. GUINET and A. Le Thomas. 1990. Current knowledge and interpretation of the pollen characters in Annonaceae and Leguminosae, subfamily Mimosoideae. Rev. Palaeobot. & Palynol. 64:109-127. GUNN. 1991. Fruits and seeds of genera in the subfamily Caesalpinioideae (Fabaceae). USDA, ARS, Technical Bulletin 1755. 407 pp. HANG and Chen Jie. 1990. A revision of the genus Cylindrokelupha from China. Acta Bot. Yunn. 1 2(2): 117-1 25. HANG and Chen Jie. 1990. Taxonomy, distribution, and possible floristic origin of the genus Acacia from China. Acta Bot. Yunn. 12(3):255-268. Hastings, R.B. 1990. Medicinal legumes of Mexico: Fabaceae: Papilionoideae, part 1. Econ. Bot. 44(3):336-348. HERENDEEN and DILCHER. 1990. Diplotropis (Leguminosae: Papilionoideae) from Middle Eocene of Southeastern North America. Syst. Bot. 15(4):526-533. HERENDEEN and DILCHER. 1990. Reproductive and vegetative evidence for the occurrence of Crudia (Leguminosae: Caesalpinioideae) in the Eocene of southeastern North America. Bot. Gaz. 151:402-413. HERENDEEN and DILCHER. 1990. Mimosoid legumes from the Eocene and Oligocene of southeastern North America. Rev. Palaeobot. & Palynol. 62:339-361. HERENDEEN and DILCHER. 1991. Caesalpinia subgenus Mezoneuron (Leguminosae: Caesalpinioideae) from the Tertiary of North America. Amer. Jour. Bot. 78:1-12. HERENDEEN and ZARUCCHI. 1990. Validation of Caesalpinia subgenus Mezoneuron (Desf.) Vidal and new combinations in Caesalpinia for two species of Mezoneuron from Africa. Ann. Mo. Bot. Gard. 77:854-855. HERNANDEZ and GUINET. 1990. Calliandropsis : A new genus of Leguminosae: Mimosoideae from Mexico. Kew Bull. 45(4):609-620. Jeffery, C. 1991. Species plantarum project (SPP). Compositae Newsletter Number 19, pp. 1-6. Lang, P. and MASLIN. 1990. Acacia praemorsa. Jour. Adelaide Bot. Gard. 13:118-123. Latorre, F. 1983. Wood anatomy of eleven legumes from southeast of Ecuador. Ciencia Y Naturaleza 24(l):83-92. LAVIN. 1990. Genus Sphinctospermum (Leguminosae): Taxonomy and tribal relationships as inferred from a cladistic analysis of traditional data. Syst. Bot. 15(4):544-559. 8 Bean Bag Number 33 LAVIN and DELGADO. 1990. Pollen brush of Papilionoideae (Leguminosae): Morphological variation and systematic utility. Amer. Jour. Bot. 77(10): 1294- 13 12. LAVIN and J.J. Doyle. 1991. Tribal relationships of Sphinctospermum (Leguminosae): integration of traditional and chloroplast DNA data. Syst. Bot. 16:162-172. Ma, S.-W. and IYER. 1990. New field isolates of Rhizobium leguminosarum bisvar Viciae that nodulate the primitive pea cultivar Afghanistan in addition to modern cultivars. Appl. Env. Microbiol. 56:2206. MAASSOUMI and PODLECH. 1988. Eleven new species and a new section from genus Astragalus (Leguminosae) in Iran. Iran. Jour. Bot. 4( 1 ):7 1 -90. Mackinder and LEWIS. 1990. Two new species of Calliandra (Leguminosae: Mimosoideae) from Brazil. Kew Bull. 45(4):68 1-684. Mader, U. and PODLECH. 1989. Revision der marokkanischen Arten von Lotus L. subgenus Pedrosia (R. Lowe) Brand (Leguminosae). Mitt. Bot. Staatssamml. Miinchen 28:513-567. MASLIN. 1990. Acacia miscellany 4. Three new Western Australian species with affinities to A. wilhelmiana (Leguminosae: Mimosoideae: section Plurinerves) from Western Australia. Nuytsia 7(2):221-228. MAUMONT. 1990. Taxonomic value of the seed coat histology in the Acacieae and the Ingeae. Ph.D. Dissertation, 194 pp., University P. Sabatier, France. MAXWELL. 1990. A new combination in Dioclea Kunth (Fabaceae: Diocleinae) from clarification of D. glabra Bentham, Flora Brasiliensis. Ann. Mo. Bot. Gard. 77:578-583. MAXWELL. 1990. New taxa of Dioclea Kunth (Fabaceae: Diocleinae) from the Venezuelan Guayana. Ann. Mo. Bot. Gard. 77:584-587. MISSET. 1990. Donnees caryologiques chez le genre Ulex (Faboideae) dans le Massif Armoricain. Taxon 39(4):630-635. MOSJIDIS. 1990. Daylength and temperature effects on emergence and early growth of sericea lespedeza. Agron. Jour. 82:923-926. MURRAY and K.R.W. Hammett. 1989. Lathyrus chloranthus X L. chrysanthus : A new interspecific hybrid. Bot. Gaz. 150:469-476. Obando, L., BAUDOIN, C. Dickburt, and P. Lepoivre. 1990. Identification de sources de resistance a l’ascochytose du haricot au sein du genre Phaseolus. Bull. Rech. Agron. Gembloux 25(4):443-457. Obando, L., J. Kummert, P. Lepoivre and BAUDOIN. 1990. Virulence and isozyme variations within fungi causing Ascochyta blight of Phaseolus vulgaris. Med. Fac. Landbouww. Rijkuniv. Gent 55(3a):8 15-815. O’Donoughue, L.S. and GRANT. 1989. Chromosomal variation in Lotus alpinus (Fabaceae). Plant Species Biol. 4:117-122. O’Donoughue, L.S., J.V. Raelson, and GRANT. 1989. A morphological study of interspecific hybrids May 1991 9 in the genus Lotus (Fabaceae). Can. Jour. Bot. 68:803-812. OLIVEIRA. 1990. Adi