Psophocarpus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Subfamily: Faboideae
Tribe: Phaseoleae
Genus: Psophocarpus
Neck. ex DC.
Species

see text

Synonyms[1]
  • Botor Adans. (1763), nom. rej.
  • Diesingia Endl. (1832)
  • Vignopsis De Wild. (1902)

Psophocarpus is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae. It includes nine species of climbing herbs or subshrubs native to tropical Africa. Typical habitats include seasonally-dry tropical forest and forest margins, moist wooded grassland and grassland, thicket, swamp, and secondary vegetation.[1] It belongs to subfamily Faboideae.

Species

There are currently 10 living species of Psophocarpus:[2][3]

Subgenus Psophocarpus

Sect. Psocarpus

Sect. Unifoliate

Subgenus Vignopsis

Notes

  1. ^ Not included in Fatihah et al.
  1. ^ a b Psophocarpus Neck. ex DC. Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 17 September 2023.
  2. ^ "CoL 2019 Checklist: Taxonomic Tree #Psophocarpus". 2019. Retrieved 20 January 2020.
  3. ^ Fatihah, H.N. Nur; Maxted, N.; Rico Arce, L. (2011). "Cladistic analysis of Psophocarpus Neck. ex DC. (Leguminosae, Papilionoideae) based on morphological characters". South African Journal of Botany. 83: 78–88. doi:10.1016/j.sajb.2012.07.010.


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