Compared to the seven other families that represent overall (predominantly
arborescent) botanical diversity on Sundaland, the legumes
contain a large proportion of herbs and lianas. As this might influence
the capacity of legumes to predict overall botanical diversity, we indicated
for each legume species their growth habit as tree, liana, herb or
miscellaneous (everything else than the former). This allowed us to analyse
the botanical diversity indicator status of legumes for ‘four’ different
growth habits, both individually and combined.