| Psophocarpus | |
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| Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae | 
| Clade: | Tracheophytes | 
| Clade: | Angiosperms | 
| Clade: | Eudicots | 
| Clade: | Rosids | 
| Order: | Fabales | 
| Family: | Fabaceae | 
| Subfamily: | Faboideae | 
| Tribe: | Phaseoleae | 
| Genus: | Psophocarpus Neck. ex DC.  | 
| Species | |
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| Synonyms[1] | |
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Psophocarpus is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae. It includes nine species of climbing herbs or subshrubs native to tropical Africa. Typical habitats include seasonally-dry tropical forest and forest margins, moist wooded grassland and grassland, thicket, swamp, and secondary vegetation.[1] It belongs to subfamily Faboideae.
Species
There are currently 10 living species of Psophocarpus:[2][3]
- Subgenus Psophocarpus
 
Sect. Psocarpus
- P. grandiflorus R.Wilczek – umuharakuku
 - P. obovalis Tisser.
 - P. palustris Desv.
 - P. scandens (Endl.)Verdc. – anonantaka
 - P. tetragonolobus (L.) DC. – asparagus bean, princess bean, four-angled bean, winged bean
 
Sect. Unifoliate
- P. lecomtei Tisser.
 - P. monophyllus Harms
 
- Subgenus Vignopsis
 
- P. indicus Wild. – goa bean, winged bean [Note 1]
 - P. lancifolius Harms
 - P. lukafuensis (De Wild.)R.Wilczek
 
Notes
- ↑ Not included in Fatihah et al.
 
- 1 2 Psophocarpus Neck. ex DC. Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 17 September 2023.
 - ↑ "CoL 2019 Checklist: Taxonomic Tree #Psophocarpus". 2019. Retrieved 20 January 2020.
 - ↑ Fatihah, H.N. Nur; Maxted, N.; Rico Arce, L. (2011). "Cladistic analysis of Psophocarpus Neck. ex DC. (Leguminosae, Papilionoideae) based on morphological characters". South African Journal of Botany. 83: 78–88. doi:10.1016/j.sajb.2012.07.010.
 
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