''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 (). The term angiosperm is derived from the Ancient Greek, Greek words (; 'container, vessel') and (; 'seed'), meaning that the seeds are enclosed with ...

s in the

legume Legumes are plants in the pea family Fabaceae (or Leguminosae), or the fruit or seeds of such plants. When used as a dry grain for human consumption, the seeds are also called pulses. Legumes are grown agriculturally, primarily for human consum ...

family,

Fabaceae Fabaceae () or Leguminosae,International Code of Nomen ...

. It includes three species native to eastern North America and southern, southeastern, and eastern Asia. It belongs to the

subfamily In biological classification, a subfamily (Latin: ', plural ') is an auxiliary (intermediate) taxonomic rank, next below family but more inclusive than genus. Standard nomenclature rules end botanical subfamily names with "-oideae", and zo ...

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: *'' Amphicarpaea bracteata'' – eastern North America *'' Amphicarpaea edgeworthii'' – eastern and southeast Asia (China, India, Japan, Korea, Russia, Vietnam) *'' Amphicarpaea ferruginea'' – 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 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. Glycine is one of the proteinogenic amino acids. It is encoded by all the codons starting with GG (G ...

'' and '' Teramnus'':

References

Phaseoleae Fabaceae genera Taxa named by Thomas Nuttall {{Phaseoleae-stub