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Si ildis.org n'est pas le site web que vous recherchez, vous souhaiterez peut-être visiter ILDYS.ORG (Fondation ILDYS).
ILDIS (International Legume Database and Information Service)
This is the new ILDIS wiki, started on 17 June 2018, and currently under construction.
12 August 2025: The wiki is being moved into a wiki farm.
Copies of the ILDIS database
Static web pages
ILDIS World Database of Legumes version 10.38, published by Alice Software
- Database last revised on 9th July 2010
- Content © International Legume Database & Information Service (ILDIS), 2006–2013
- Web page last revised: 20.01.2013 14:57:08
This copy consists of thousands of web pages for the taxa and various indexes, which can be browsed in many ways, but not easily converted into another format.
Online database
Original web site
The original ILDIS web-site will remain available for some time, and some pages will gradually be transferred to this wiki. Other pages will be identified as part of an archive, which will be preserved as a historical record, and will not be updated. I will endeavour to ensure that the main URLs do not change, so that you can continue to bookmark
Please let me know of any problems (Richard White).
Present and future
“It makes sense that legumes, as one of the largest and most economically and ecologically important plant families, were the focus of some of the earliest pioneering work to develop online species databases and information systems from the 1980s onwards, notably through the International Legume Database & Information System (ILDIS). However, despite this early prominence of legumes in biodiversity informatics, in recent years it has become increasingly clear that a new and more modern database and species information system for legumes is required. In a paper produced under the umbrella of the Legume Phylogeny Working Group (Bruneau et al. 2019) 1) the history of legume databasing and ILDIS is reviewed, the value of taxon-centric information systems is discussed in relation to wider global biodiversity databasing initiatives, and exemplar species information systems for other taxonomic groups are surveyed. This survey provides the foundations and a road-map for a much-needed new online species information system for legumes. We very much encourage this new initiative to reinstate legumes at the forefront of species informatics; we endorse the on-going value of taxon-centric information systems and encourage the development of a system that can interface efficiently with key global taxonomic, specimen and trait databases; we look forward to a state-of-the-art new legume species information system.
“This proposed new legume information system will be useful for myriad sub-disciplines in science, with trait details of various sorts compiled into a searchable and expandable database, including information on economic uses and ethnobotany of legumes. …”
– Colin Hughes, Ashley Egan, Daniel Murphy and Tadashi Kajita Advances in Legume Systematics 13, Australian Systematic Botany, 2019, 32, i–iii (https://doi.org/10.1071/SBv32n6_ED)
References
Roskov Y.R., Bisby F.A., Zarucchi J.L., Schrire B.D. & White R.J. (eds.)
ILDIS World Database of Legumes: draft checklist, version 10
[published June 2006, but CD shows November 2005 date].
ILDIS, Reading, UK, 2006
[CD-Rom: ISBN 0 7049 1248 1]
(also available here at https://ildis.org/LegumeWeb10.01.shtml)