Teramnus

Teramnus
Teramnus labialis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Subfamily: Faboideae
Subtribe: Glycininae
Genus: Teramnus
P.Browne (1756)
Species[1]

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).[2][3]

  1. ^ a b 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.