''Amphicarpaea'', commonly known as hogpeanut, is a genus of
flowering plant
Flowering plants are plants that bear flowers and fruits, and form the clade Angiospermae (), commonly called angiosperms. They include all forbs (flowering plants without a woody stem), grasses and grass-like plants, a vast majority of ...
s in the
legume
A legume () is a plant in the family Fabaceae (or Leguminosae), or the fruit or seed of such a plant. When used as a dry grain, the seed is also called a pulse. Legumes are grown agriculturally, primarily for human consumption, for livestock fo ...
family,
Fabaceae. It belongs to the
subfamily Faboideae
The Faboideae are a subfamily of the flowering plant family Fabaceae or Leguminosae. An acceptable alternative name for the subfamily is Papilionoideae, or Papilionaceae when this group of plants is treated as a family.
This subfamily is widely ...
.
Species include:
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A. bracteata'' – eastern North America
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A. edgeworthii'' Benth. – eastern and southeast Asia (China, India, Japan, Korea, Russia, Vietnam)
It is classified in subtribe Glycininae and its closest relatives are ''
Glycine
Glycine (symbol Gly or G; ) is an amino acid that has a single hydrogen atom as its side chain. It is the simplest stable amino acid ( carbamic acid is unstable), with the chemical formula NH2‐ CH2‐ COOH. Glycine is one of the proteinog ...
'' and ''
Teramnus'':
References
Phaseoleae
Fabaceae genera
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