| Teramnus | |
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| Teramnus labialis | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Fabales |
| Family: | Fabaceae |
| Subfamily: | Faboideae |
| Subtribe: | Glycininae |
| Genus: | Teramnus P.Browne (1756) |
| Species [1] | |
8; see text | |
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. [1]
It belongs to subfamily Faboideae and is closely related to Glycine as well as Amphicarpaea . The somatic chromosome number for Teramnus is (x = 7). [2] [3]
