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Teramnus

Teramnus is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae. It includes eight species of climbing herbs and subshrubs native to the tropics of the Americas, sub-Saharan Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, the Indian Subcontinent, Indochina, Hainan, Taiwan, and New Guinea. Typical habitats are seasonally-dry tropical bushland and thicket, grassland, wooded grassland, and forest clearings, often in open and dry rocky areas.

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Teramnus
Teramnus labialis
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Embryophytes
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Spermatophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Subfamily: Faboideae
Subtribe: Glycininae
Genus: Teramnus
P.Browne (1756)
Species1

8; see text

Teramnus is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae. It includes eight species of climbing herbs and subshrubs native to the tropics of the Americas, sub-Saharan Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, the Indian Subcontinent, Indochina, Hainan, Taiwan, and New Guinea. Typical habitats are seasonally-dry tropical bushland and thicket, grassland, wooded grassland, and forest clearings, often in open and dry rocky areas.1

It belongs to subfamily Faboideae and is closely related to Glycine as well as Amphicarpaea. The somatic chromosome number for Teramnus is (x = 7).23

Species

Eight species are accepted.1

  • Teramnus buettneri (Harms) Baker f.
  • Teramnus flexilis Benth.
  • Teramnus labialis (L.f.) Spreng.4
  • Teramnus micans (Welw. ex Baker) Baker f.
  • Teramnus mollis Benth.
  • Teramnus repens (Taub.) Baker f.5
  • Teramnus uncinatus (L.) Sw.6
  • Teramnus volubilis Sw.7
References

References

  1. Teramnus P.Browne. Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 22 September 2023.
  2. Lee, Jeongran; Hymowitz, Theodore (November 2001). "A molecular phylogenetic study of the subtribe Glycininae (Leguminosae) derived from the chloroplast DNA rps 16 intron sequences". American Journal of Botany. 88 (11): 2064–2073. doi:10.2307/3558432. JSTOR 3558432. PMID 21669638.
  3. Lackey, James A. (April 1980). "Chromosome numbers in the Phaseoleae (Fabaceae:Faboideae) and their relation to taxonomy". American Journal of Botany. 67 (4): 595–602. doi:10.1002/j.1537-2197.1980.tb07689.x.
  4. "USDA Plants Database". plants.usda.gov. Retrieved 2023-08-29.
  5. "USDA Plants Database". plants.usda.gov. Retrieved 2023-08-29.
  6. "USDA Plants Database". plants.usda.gov. Retrieved 2023-08-29.
  7. "USDA Plants Database". plants.usda.gov. Retrieved 2023-08-29.