Glycine (plant) explained

Glycine (soybean or soya bean) is a genus in the bean family Fabaceae. The best known species is the cultivated soybean (Glycine max). While the majority of the species are found only in Australia, the soybean's native range is in East Asia. A few species extend from Australia to East Asia (e.g., G. tomentella and G. tabacina).Glycine species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species: the engrailed, nutmeg and turnip moths have all been recorded on soybean.

Species

28 species are accepted:

Subgenus Glycine^{[1] [2]}

• Glycine albicans
• Glycine aphyonotos
• Glycine arenaria
• Glycine argyrea
• Glycine canescens
• Glycine clandestina
• Glycine curvata
• Glycine cyrtoloba
• Glycine dolichocarpa
• Glycine falcata
• Glycine gracei
• Glycine hirticaulis
  • Glycine hirticaulis subsp. leptosa
• Glycine koidzumii
• Glycine lactovirens
• Glycine latifolia
• Glycine latrobeana
• Glycine microphylla
• Glycine montis-douglas
• Glycine peratosa
• Glycine pescadrensis
• Glycine pindanica
• Glycine pullenii
• Glycine remota
• Glycine rubiginosa
• Glycine stenophita
• Glycine syndetika
• Glycine tabacina
• Glycine tomentella

Subgenus Soja (Moench) F.J. Herm.

• Glycine max (the soybean)
• Glycine soja

References

• Genus Glycine Willd., Plants Database, US Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service

Recent taxonomic references

• Barrett, R. L. and M. D. Barrett. (2015). Twenty-seven new species of vascular plants from Western Australia. Nuytsia 26, 21–87.
• Pfeil, B. E., et al. (2006). Three new species of northern Australian Glycine (Fabaceae, Phaseolae), G. gracei, G. montis-douglas and G. syndetika. Australian Systematic Botany 19, 245–258.
• Pfeil, B. E. and L. A. Craven. (2002). New taxa in Glycine (Fabaceae: Phaseoleae) from north-western Australia. Australian Systematic Botany 15, 565–573.
• Pfeil, B. E., et al. (2001). A review of the Glycine clandestina species complex (Fabaceae, Phaseoleae) reveals two new species. Australian Systematic Botany 14, 891–900.
• Pfeil, B. E. and M. D. Tindale. (2001). Glycine. in Flora of NSW, revised edition. Vol. 2. Harden, G. (ed.). Sydney, NSW University Press.
• Doyle, J. J., et al. (2000). Confirmation of shared and divergent genomes in the Glycine tabacina polyploid complex (Leguminosae) using histone H3-D sequences. Systematic Botany 25, 437–448.
• Tindale, M. D. and L. A. Craven. (1993). Glycine pindanica (Fabaceae: Phaseolae), a new species from west Kimberley, Western Australia. Australian Systematic Botany 6, 371–376.
• Tindale, M. D. and L. A. Craven. (1988). Three new species of Glycine (Fabaceae: Phaseolae) from North-western Australia, with notes on amphicarpy in the genus. Australian Systematic Botany 1, 399–410.
• Tindale, M. D. (1986). Taxonomic notes on three Australian and Norfolk Island species of Glycine Willd. (Fabaceae: Phaseolae) including the choice of a neotype for G. clandestina Wendl. Brunonia 9, 179–191.
• Tindale, M. D. (1984). Two new eastern Australian species of Glycine Willd. (Fabaceae). Brunonia 7, 207–213.
• Newell, C. A. and T. Hymowitz. (1980). A taxonomic revision on the genus Glycine subgenus Glycine (Leguminosae). Brittonia 32, 63–69.
• Hermann, F. J. (1962). A revision of the genus Glycine and its immediate allies. Tech. Bull. U.S.D.A. 1268.

Older taxonomic references

• Hayata. (1920). Ic. Pl. Formos. 9: 29.
• Bentham, G. (1864). Glycine. Fl. Austral. 2: 242–245.

Citations

Notes and References

1. Web site: Home — The Plant List. www.theplantlist.org. 2019-04-25.
2. Web site: ILDIS LegumeWeb (version 10). ildis.org. 2019-04-25.