Amphicarpaea

Amphicarpaea, commonly known as hogpeanut,[1] is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae. It belongs to the subfamily Faboideae.

Amphicarpaea
Amphicarpaea bracteata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Rosids
Order:	Fabales
Family:	Fabaceae
Subfamily:	Faboideae
Tribe:	Phaseoleae
Subtribe:	Glycininae
Genus:	Amphicarpaea Elliott ex Nutt.
Species
See text.
Synonyms
Amphicarpa Elliott ex Nutt., orth. var. Falcata J. F. Gmel.

Species include:

• A. bracteata – eastern North America[2]
• A. edgeworthii Benth. – eastern and southeast Asia (China, India, Japan, Korea, Russia, Vietnam)[3][4]

It is classified in subtribe Glycininae and its closest relatives are Glycine and Teramnus:[5]

	Amphicarpaea
	Glycine     Teramnus

References

1. English Names for Korean Native Plants (PDF), Pocheon: Korea National Arboretum, 2015, p. 350, ISBN 978-89-97450-98-5, archived from the original (PDF) on 25 May 2017, retrieved 25 January 2016 – via Korea Forest Service
2. "Amphicarpaea", Natural Resources Conservation Service PLANTS Database. USDA
3. Sachiko Funayama, Ichiro Terashima and Tetsukazu Yahara (2001), "Effects of virus infection and light environment on population dynamics of Eupatorium makinoi (Asteraceae)", American Journal of Botany, 88 (4): 616–622, doi:10.2307/2657060, JSTOR 2657060, PMID 11302846
4. Sa, Ren; Gilbert, Michael G., "Amphicarpaea edgeworthii", Flora of China, 10 – via eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, MO & Harvard University Herbaria, Cambridge, MA
5. Jeongran Lee and Theodore Hymowitz (2001), "A molecular phylogenetic study of the subtribe Glycininae (Leguminosae) derived from the chloroplast DNA rps16 intron sequences", American Journal of Botany, 88 (11): 2064–2073, doi:10.2307/3558432, JSTOR 3558432