Biology:Amphicarpaea

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Short description: Genus of legumes

Amphicarpaea
Amphicarpaea bracteata inflorescence.jpg
Amphicarpaea bracteata
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Subfamily: Faboideae
Tribe: Phaseoleae
Subtribe: Glycininae
Genus: Amphicarpaea
Elliott ex Nutt. (1818), nom. cons.
Species[1]
Synonyms[1]
  • Cryptolobus Spreng. (1818)
  • Falcata J.F.Gmel. (1792)
  • Lobomon Raf. (1836)
  • Savia Raf. (1808), nom. illeg.
  • Tetrodea Raf. (1836), nom. superfl.

Amphicarpaea, commonly known as hogpeanut,[2] is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae. It includes three species native to eastern North America and southern, southeastern, and eastern Asia.[1] It belongs to the subfamily Faboideae.

Species include:[1]

  • Amphicarpaea bracteata (L.) Fernald – eastern North America[3]
  • Amphicarpaea edgeworthii Benth. – eastern and southeast Asia (China, India, Japan, Korea, Russia, Vietnam)[4][5]
  • Amphicarpaea ferruginea Benth. – Nepal to eastern Himalalayas, Myanmar, south-central China (Sichuan and Yunnan), and Thailand

It is classified in subtribe Glycininae and its closest relatives are Glycine and Teramnus:[6]

Amphicarpaea

Glycine

Teramnus

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Amphicarpaea Eliott ex Nutt. Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 10 September 2023.
  2. English Names for Korean Native Plants. Pocheon: Korea National Arboretum. 2015. pp. 350. ISBN 978-89-97450-98-5. http://www.forest.go.kr/kna/special/download/English_Names_for_Korean_Native_Plants.pdf. Retrieved 25 January 2016. 
  3. "Amphicarpaea". Natural Resources Conservation Service PLANTS Database. USDA. https://plants.usda.gov/core/profile?symbol=AMPHI4. 
  4. Sachiko Funayama, Ichiro Terashima and Tetsukazu Yahara (2001). "Effects of virus infection and light environment on population dynamics of Eupatorium makinoi (Asteraceae)". American Journal of Botany 88 (4): 616–622. doi:10.2307/2657060. PMID 11302846. 
  5. Sa, Ren; Gilbert, Michael G., "Amphicarpaea edgeworthii", Flora of China, 10, http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=242302798 
  6. Jeongran Lee and Theodore Hymowitz (2001). "A molecular phylogenetic study of the subtribe Glycininae (Leguminosae) derived from the chloroplast DNA rps16 intron sequences". American Journal of Botany 88 (11): 2064–2073. doi:10.2307/3558432. 

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