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Amphicarpaea

Amphicarpaea, commonly known as hogpeanut, 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. It belongs to the subfamily Faboideae.

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Amphicarpaea
Amphicarpaea bracteata
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Embryophytes
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Spermatophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Subfamily: Faboideae
Clade: Millettioids
Tribe: Phaseoleae
Subtribe: Glycininae
Genus: Amphicarpaea
Elliott ex Nutt. (1818), nom. cons.
Species1
Synonyms1
  • 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 America3
  • Amphicarpaea edgeworthii Benth. – eastern and southeast Asia (China, India, Japan, Korea, Russia, Vietnam)45
  • 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

References

References

  1. Amphicarpaea Eliott ex Nutt. Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 10 September 2023.
  2. English Names for Korean Native Plants (PDF), Pocheon: Korea National Arboretum, 2015, p. 350, ISBN 978-89-97450-98-5, archived from the original (PDF) on 25 May 2017, retrieved 25 January 2016 – via Korea Forest Service
  3. NRCS, "Amphicarpaea", PLANTS Database, United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)
  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, JSTOR 2657060, PMID 11302846
  5. Sa, Ren; Gilbert, Michael G., "Amphicarpaea edgeworthii", Flora of China, vol. 10 – via eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, MO & Harvard University Herbaria, Cambridge, MA
  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, JSTOR 3558432