Neonotonia wightii

Neonotonia wightii, the perennial soybean, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae, native to sub‑Saharan Africa, Yemen, India, and Sri Lanka, and widely introduced as a forage in Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay, northern Argentina, the Mascarene Islands, Peninsular Malaysia, Java, New Guinea, Queensland and New South Wales in Australia, and Fiji.^[1][2] It is shade tolerant.^[3]

Neonotonia wightii
Climbing on vegetation, Maui
Flowers and leaves
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Rosids
Order:	Fabales
Family:	Fabaceae
Subfamily:	Faboideae
Genus:	Neonotonia
Species:	N. wightii
Binomial name
Neonotonia wightii (Wight & Arn.) J.A.Lackey
Synonyms[1]
List Glycine albidiflora De Wild. Glycine bujacia Benth. Glycine claessensii De Wild. Glycine laurentii De Wild. Glycine longicauda Schweinf. Glycine mearnsii De Wild. Glycine micrantha Hochst. ex A.Rich. Glycine petitiana (A.Rich.) Schweinf. Glycine pseudojavanica Taub. Glycine rooseveltii De Wild. Glycine wightii (Wight & Arn.) Verdc. Glycine wightii var. coimbatorensis A.Sen Johnia petitiana A.Rich. Johnia wightii (Wight & Arn.) Wight & Arn. Neonotonia wightii var. coimbatorensis (A.Sen) Karthik. Notonia wightii Wight & Arn. Soja wightii Graham

Subtaxa

The following subtaxa are accepted:^[1]

• Neonotonia wightii var. longicauda (Schweinf.) J.A.Lackey
• Neonotonia wightii var. mearnsii (De Wild.) J.A.Lackey
• Neonotonia wightii subsp. petitiana (A.Rich.) J.A.Lackey
• Neonotonia wightii subsp. pseudojavanica (Taub.) J.A.Lackey
• Neonotonia wightii subsp. wightii