"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 ({{::towards_a_new_online_species-information_system_fo.pdf|Bruneau et al. 2019}}) ((Bruneau A, Borges LM, Allkin R, Egan AN, de la Estrella M, Javadi F, Klitgaard B, Miller JT, Murphy DJ, Sinou C, Vatanparast M, Zhang R (2019) //Towards a new online species-information system for legumes//. Australian Systematic Botany **32**(5–6), 495–518. doi:10.1071/SB19025)) 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.pdf|Advances in Legume Systematics 13}}, Australian Systematic Botany, 2019, 32, i–iii (https://doi.org/10.1071/SBv32n6_ED)