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Glycine (plant)

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Glycine max: Soybeans
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Genus: Glycine
Willd.
Species

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Glycine is a genus in the bean family Fabaceae. The most well known species is the soybean (Glycine max).

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

[edit] Species

Subgenus Glycine

  • G. albicans Tind. & Craven
  • G. arenaria Tind.
  • G. argyrea Tind.
  • G. canescens F.J. Herm.
  • G. clandestina Wendl.
  • G. curvata Tind.
  • G. cyrtoloba Tind.
  • G. falcata Benth.
  • G. hirticaulis Tind. & Craven
  • G. lactovirens Tind. & Craven
  • G. latifolia (Benth.) Newell & Hymowitz
  • G. latrobeana (Meissn.) Benth.
  • G. microphylla (Benth.) Tind.
  • G. pindanica Tind. & Craven
  • G. tabacina (Labill.) Benth.
  • G. tomentella Hayata

Subgenus Soja (Moench) F.J. Herm.

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

[edit] References

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