Biology:Teramnus

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Short description: Genus of legumes

Teramnus
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Teramnus labialis
Scientific classification e
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]

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

Wikidata ☰ Q3310131 entry