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The genus Glycine is in the family Leguminosae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Glycine

See "Status", "Confidence level", "Source" for definitions.

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Glycine arenaria Tindale	Accepted		ILDIS
Glycine argyrea Tindale	Accepted		ILDIS
Glycine canescens F.J.Herm.	Accepted		ILDIS
Glycine clandestina Wendl.	Accepted		ILDIS
Glycine curvata Tindale	Accepted		ILDIS
Glycine cyrtoloba Tindale	Accepted		ILDIS
Glycine falcata Benth.	Accepted		ILDIS
Glycine latifolia (Benth.) C.A.Newell & Hymowitz	Accepted		ILDIS
Glycine latrobeana (Meissner) Benth.	Accepted		ILDIS
Glycine max (L.) Merr.	Accepted		ILDIS
Glycine microphylla Tindale	Accepted		ILDIS
Glycine pindanica Tindale & Craven	Accepted		ILDIS
Glycine priceana (B.L. Rob.) Britton	Accepted		TRO
Glycine tabacina (Labill.) Benth.	Accepted		ILDIS
Glycine tomentella Hayata	Accepted		ILDIS

Statistics

The Plant List includes 285 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Glycine. Of these 15 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 40 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Glycine. We do not intend The Plant List to be complete for names of infraspecific rank. These are primarily included because names of species rank are synonyms of accepted infraspecific names.

Species names

The status of the 285 species names for the genus Glycine recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	15	5.3%
◕	Synonym	179	62.8%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	91	31.9%

All names

The status of the 325 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Glycine recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	16	4.9%
◕	Synonym	217	66.8%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	92	28.3%

Of these names,

• 3 are recorded as a spelling variant

A further 2 name records indicate where names have been misapplied.

The confidence with which the status of the 285 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Glycine, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	14	146	0	0	160	56.1%
	Medium confidence	1	29	0	0	30	10.5%
	Low confidence	0	4	0	91	95	33.3%

The source of the species name record found in The Plant List for the genus Glycine, are as follows: