Teramnus

{{Short description|Genus of legumes}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| image = Karu Minumullu (Telugu- కారు మీనుముల్లు) (2934230818).jpg

| image_caption = Teramnus labialis

| taxon = Teramnus

| authority = P.Browne (1756)

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = 8; see text

| subdivision_ref = [https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:23674-1 Teramnus P.Browne]. Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 22 September 2023.

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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.

It belongs to subfamily Faboideae and is closely related to Glycine as well as Amphicarpaea. The somatic chromosome number for Teramnus is (x = 7).{{Cite journal |last1=Lee |first1=Jeongran |last2=Hymowitz |first2=Theodore |date=November 2001 |title=A molecular phylogenetic study of the subtribe Glycininae (Leguminosae) derived from the chloroplast DNA rps 16 intron sequences |url=http://doi.wiley.com/10.2307/3558432 |journal=American Journal of Botany |language=en |volume=88 |issue=11 |pages=2064–2073 |doi=10.2307/3558432|jstor=3558432 |pmid=21669638 |url-access=subscription }}{{Cite journal |last=Lackey |first=James A. |date=April 1980 |title=Chromosome numbers in the Phaseoleae (Fabaceae:Faboideae) and their relation to taxonomy |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/j.1537-2197.1980.tb07689.x |journal=American Journal of Botany |language=en |volume=67 |issue=4 |pages=595–602 |doi=10.1002/j.1537-2197.1980.tb07689.x|url-access=subscription }}