Amphicarpaea
Amphicarpaea is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae. It belongs to the sub family Faboideae.
Species include:
A. bracteata - Eastern North America
A. edgeworthii Benth. - range includes Japan
It is classified in subtribe Glycininae and its closest relatives are Glycine and Teramnus:
References
↑ Amphicarpaea Elliot ex Nutt., USDA PLANTS
↑ 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, PMID 11302846
↑ 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