Psophocarpus

Psophocarpus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Rosids
Order:	Fabales
Family:	Fabaceae
Subfamily:	Faboideae
Tribe:	Phaseoleae
Genus:	Psophocarpus Neck. ex DC.
Species
see text
Synonyms[1]
Botor Adans. (1763), nom. rej. Diesingia Endl. (1832) Vignopsis De Wild. (1902)

Psophocarpus is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae. It includes nine species of climbing herbs or subshrubs native to tropical Africa. Typical habitats include seasonally-dry tropical forest and forest margins, moist wooded grassland and grassland, thicket, swamp, and secondary vegetation.^[1] It belongs to subfamily Faboideae.