Amphicarpaea Explained

Amphicarpaea, commonly known as hogpeanut,^[1] is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae. It includes three species native to eastern North America and southern, southeastern, and eastern Asia. It belongs to the subfamily Faboideae.

Species include:

• Amphicarpaea bracteata – eastern North America
• Amphicarpaea edgeworthii – eastern and southeast Asia (China, India, Japan, Korea, Russia, Vietnam)^[2]
• 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 and Teramnus:^[3]

Notes and References

1. Book: English Names for Korean Native Plants . . 2015 . 978-89-97450-98-5 . Pocheon . 350 . 25 January 2016 . . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20170525105020/http://www.forest.go.kr/kna/special/download/English_Names_for_Korean_Native_Plants.pdf . 25 May 2017 . cs2.
2. American Journal of Botany . 2001 . 88 . 616–622 . Effects of virus infection and light environment on population dynamics of Eupatorium makinoi (Asteraceae) . Sachiko Funayama, Ichiro Terashima and Tetsukazu Yahara . 10.2307/2657060 . 11302846 . 4 . cs2 . 2657060 . free .
3. American Journal of Botany . 2001 . 88 . 2064–2073 . A molecular phylogenetic study of the subtribe Glycininae (Leguminosae) derived from the chloroplast DNA rps16 intron sequences . Jeongran Lee and Theodore Hymowitz . 10.2307/3558432 . 11 . cs2 . 3558432 .