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

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.

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
• Glycine 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., Craven, L.A., Brown, A.H.D., Murray, B.G. and Doyle, J.J. (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 Craven, L.A. (2002). New taxa in Glycine (Fabaceae: Phaseoleae) from north-western Australia. Australian Systematic Botany, 15, 565-573.
  
• Pfeil, B.E. , Tindale, M.D. and Craven, L.A. (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 Tindale, M.D. (2001). Glycine. in Flora of NSW, revised edition. Vol. 2, ed. G. Harden. Sydney, NSW University Press.
  
• Doyle, J.J., Doyle, J.L., Brown, A.H.D. and Pfeil, B.E. (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 Craven L.A. (1993) Glycine pindanica (Fabaceae: Phaseolae), a new species from west Kimberley, Western Australia. Australian Systematic Botany 6, 371-376.
  
• Tindale M.D. and Craven L.A. (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 Hymowitz, T. (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, Ic. Pl. Formos. 9: 29 (1920)
  
• G.Bentham, Glycine, Fl. Austral. 2: 242–245 (1864)