Teramnus

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]

Teramnus
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

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]

Species

Eight species are accepted.^[1]

• Teramnus buettneri (Harms) Baker f.
• Teramnus flexilis Benth.
• Teramnus labialis (L.f.) Spreng.^[4]
• Teramnus micans (Welw. ex Baker) Baker f.
• Teramnus mollis Benth.
• Teramnus repens (Taub.) Baker f.^[5]
• Teramnus uncinatus (L.) Sw.^[6]
• Teramnus volubilis Sw.^[7]