Legumes of Somalia: all 434 species of acacias and the pea family on record

In short

On 12 November 2026 the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), the international open database of species records, held records of 434 legume (pea family) species with Somalia as the country, in 1 families (GBIF occurrence search, Somalia).

The largest families by number of species on record are (GBIF Backbone Taxonomy):

• Fabaceae: 434

Most often recorded

The species with the most GBIF records from Somalia are Blackeyed Pea (399), Gum Arabic (162), Vachellia edgeworthii (126), Vachellia etbaica (118), Egyptian thorn, Gum arabic tree, Babul, Babul acacia, Thorn mimosa, Egyptian acacia, Egyptian mimosa, Thorny acacia, Prickly acacia, Scented-pod acacia, Nile acacia (110), Crotalaria dumosa (100) (GBIF occurrence search, Somalia).

91 of the 434 species have a single record from Somalia (same source).

Named after Somali places

18 species on this list carry Somalia or a Somali place in their scientific name, for example Abrus somalensis, Albizia obbiadensis, Chapmannia somalensis, Cordyla somalensis, Coronilla somalensis, Crotalaria benadirensis, Crotalaria jubae, Crotalaria somalensis, Indigofera ogadensis, Lupinus somaliensis, Paracalyx somalorum, Senegalia ogadensis, Senegalia somalensis, Sesbania somalensis, Tephrosia obbiadensis, Trifolium somalense, Vigna somaliensis, Zygocarpum somalense (GBIF Backbone Taxonomy).

Species under threat

The IUCN Red List places these species in a threatened category (GBIF species API, IUCN Red List category):

• Critically Endangered: Senegalia petrensis, Senegalia pseudonigrescens (IUCN via GBIF)
• Endangered: Adenopodia rotundifolia, yeheb-nut-bush, Crotalaria rhynchocarpa, Crotalaria trifoliolata, Dalbergia uarandensis, Indigofera rothii, Newtonia erlangeri, Parkinsonia raimondoi, Philenoptera kanurii, Rhynchosia malacotricha, Senegalia densispina, Senegalia flagellaris, Senegalia manubensis, Senegalia moggii, Senegalia ochracea, Senegalia venosa, Trifolium somalense, Vachellia cernua, Vachellia qandalensis, Vachellia tephrophylla, Vachellia walwalensis, Vigna monantha (IUCN via GBIF)
• Vulnerable: Albizia obbiadensis, Cordyla somalensis, Crotalaria malindiensis, Dialium orientale, Dicraeopetalum stipulare, Indigofera longimucronata, Parkinsonia anacantha, Senegalia ankokib, Senegalia caraniana, Senegalia cheilanthifolia, Senna ellisiae (IUCN via GBIF)

All plant lists: Plants of Somalia.

How to read this list

A species is on this list when GBIF holds at least one record of it from Somalia. A record can be a museum specimen more than a century old, a sighting shared by an observer, or a specimen cited in a scientific paper. Some records are old and a few may be misidentified, so this is a list of records, not of what lives in Somalia today. Names follow the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy, which can lag behind the newest research.

Red List summary

• Critically Endangered (CR): 2
• Endangered (EN): 22
• Vulnerable (VU): 11
• Near Threatened (NT): 5
• Least Concern (LC): 122
• Data Deficient (DD): 6
• Not Evaluated (NE): 266

Categories are from the IUCN Red List as published through GBIF (GBIF species API, IUCN Red List category).

Largest families

• Fabaceae: 434 species

Full list (434 species)

Each name links to its Calankii page where one exists, otherwise to its GBIF species page. "Records in Somalia" is the number of GBIF occurrence records with Somalia as the country, counted on 12 November 2026 (GBIF occurrence search, Somalia). The same rows, with Wikidata ids and more columns, are in the open data file species-recorded-in-somalia.csv.

This list is in 3 parts: 1 · 2 · 3

This list is in 3 parts: 1 · 2 · 3

Sources

• GBIF occurrence search, country Somalia
• GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
• IUCN Red List of Threatened Species