Glycine (plant)

Glycine
Glycine max: Soybeans
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Eudicots
(unranked):	Rosids
Order:	Fabales
Family:	Fabaceae
Subfamily:	Faboideae
Tribe:	Phaseoleae
Subtribe:	Glycininae
Genus:	Glycine Willd.
Species
See text.
Synonyms
Chrystolia Montrouz. Glycine L. Leptocyamus Benth. Leptolobium Benth. 1838 Soja Moench

Glycine is a genus in the bean family Fabaceae. The best known species is the soybean (Glycine max). While the majority of the species are found only in Australia, the soybean's native range is in East Asia. A few species extend from Australia to East Asia (e.g., G. tomentella and G. tabacina).

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Glycine species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species: the Engrailed, Nutmeg and Turnip moths have all been recorded on soybean.

Species

Subgenus Glycine

• Glycine albicans Tindale & Craven
• Glycine aphyonota B.E.Pfeil
• Glycine arenaria Tindale
• Glycine argyrea Tindale
• Glycine canescens F.J.Herm.
• Glycine clandestina J.C.Wendl.
• Glycine curvata Tindale
• Glycine cyrtoloba Tindale
• Glycine falcata Benth.
• Glycine gracei B.E.Pfeil & Craven
• Glycine hirticaulis Tindale & Craven
  • G. hirticaulis subsp. leptosa B.E.Pfeil
• Glycine lactovirens Tindale & Craven
• Glycine latifolia (Benth.) C.Newell & Hymowitz
• Glycine latrobeana (Meissner) Benth.
• Glycine microphylla (Benth.) Tindale
• Glycine montis-douglas B.E.Pfeil & Craven
• Glycine peratosa B.E.Pfeil & Tindale
• Glycine pescadrensis Hayata
• Glycine pindanica Tindale & Craven
• Glycine pullenii B.E.Pfeil, Tindale & Craven
• Glycine rubiginosa Tindale & B.E.Pfeil
• Glycine stenophita B.E.Pfeil & Tindale
• Glycine syndetika B.E.Pfeil & Craven
• Glycine tabacina (Labill.) Benth.
• Glycine tomentella Hayata

Subgenus Soja (Moench) F.J. Herm.

• Glycine soja Sieb. & Zucc.
• Soybean, Glycine max (L.) Merr.

References

• Species and Genomes in the Genus Glycine Willd.

Recent taxonomic references

• Pfeil, B. E., et al. (2006). Three new species of northern Australian Glycine (Fabaceae, Phaseolae), G. gracei, G. montis-douglas and G. syndetika. Australian Systematic Botany 19, 245-258.
• Pfeil, B. E. and L. A. Craven. (2002). New taxa in Glycine (Fabaceae: Phaseoleae) from north-western Australia. Australian Systematic Botany 15, 565-573.
• Pfeil, B. E., et al. (2001). A review of the Glycine clandestina species complex (Fabaceae, Phaseoleae) reveals two new species. Australian Systematic Botany 14, 891-900.
• Pfeil, B. E. and M. D. Tindale. (2001). Glycine. in Flora of NSW, revised edition. Vol. 2. Harden, G. (ed.). Sydney, NSW University Press.
• Doyle, J. J., et al. (2000). Confirmation of shared and divergent genomes in the Glycine tabacina polyploid complex (Leguminosae) using histone H3-D sequences. Systematic Botany 25, 437-448.
• Tindale, M. D. and L. A. Craven. (1993). Glycine pindanica (Fabaceae: Phaseolae), a new species from west Kimberley, Western Australia. Australian Systematic Botany 6, 371-376.
• Tindale, M. D. and L. A. Craven. (1988). Three new species of Glycine (Fabaceae: Phaseolae) from North-western Australia, with notes on amphicarpy in the genus. Australian Systematic Botany 1, 399–410.
• Tindale, M. D. (1986). Taxonomic notes on three Australian and Norfolk Island species of Glycine Willd. (Fabaceae: Phaseolae) including the choice of a neotype for G. clandestina Wendl. Brunonia 9, 179-191.
• Tindale, M. D. (1984). Two new eastern Australian species of Glycine Willd. (Fabaceae). Brunonia 7, 207-213.
• Newell, C. A. and T. Hymowitz. (1980). A taxonomic revision on the genus Glycine subgenus Glycine (Leguminosae). Brittonia 32, 63-69.
• Hermann, F. J. (1962). A revision of the genus Glycine and its immediate allies. Tech. Bull. U.S.D.A. 1268.

Older taxonomic references

• Hayata. (1920). Ic. Pl. Formos. 9: 29.
• Bentham, G. (1864). Glycine. Fl. Austral. 2: 242–245.