Alternate name: Leguminosae. Includes Mimosaceae, Caesalpiniaceae & Papilionaceae.
This treatment draws largely on the excellent Monograph on Malagasy Legumes by Du Puy, D. J., et al. (2002), but provides additional distributional data, and includes subsequent taxonomic changes and additions in Caesalpinia, Dalbergia, Dupuya, Gigasiphon, Indigofera, Mimosa, Samanea and Stuhlmannia. Recent re-evaluation of the genus Prosopis, has resulted in the transfer of the single species known to occur in Madagascar as a naturalized introduction to the genus Neltuma.
Bobgunnia madagascariensis (Desv.) J.H. Kirkbr. & Wiersema (syn. Swartzia madagascariensis), which is a widespread African sp., was almost certainly recorded in error from Madagascar and is therefore excluded.