Teramnus Explained

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.

It belongs to subfamily Faboideae and is closely related to Glycine as well as Amphicarpaea. The somatic chromosome number for Teramnus is (x = 7).^{[1] [2]}

Species

Eight species are accepted.

• Teramnus buettneri
• Teramnus flexilis
• Teramnus labialis ^[3]
• Teramnus micans
• Teramnus mollis
• Teramnus repens ^[4]
• Teramnus uncinatus ^[5]
• Teramnus volubilis ^[6]

Notes and References

1. 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 . en . 88 . 11 . 2064–2073 . 10.2307/3558432. 3558432 . 21669638 .
2. Lackey . James A. . April 1980 . Chromosome numbers in the Phaseoleae (Fabaceae:Faboideae) and their relation to taxonomy . American Journal of Botany . en . 67 . 4 . 595–602 . 10.1002/j.1537-2197.1980.tb07689.x.
3. Web site: USDA Plants Database . 2023-08-29 . plants.usda.gov.
4. Web site: USDA Plants Database . 2023-08-29 . plants.usda.gov.
5. Web site: USDA Plants Database . 2023-08-29 . plants.usda.gov.
6. Web site: USDA Plants Database . 2023-08-29 . plants.usda.gov.