Taxon: Neonotonia wightii (Wight & Arn.) J. A. Lackey

See also subordinate taxa:

• Neonotonia wightii subsp. petitiana (no accessions)
• Neonotonia wightii subsp. petitiana var. mearnsii (no accessions)
• Neonotonia wightii subsp. petitiana var. petitiana (no accessions)
• Neonotonia wightii subsp. pseudojavanica (no accessions)
• Neonotonia wightii subsp. wightii (no accessions)
• Neonotonia wightii subsp. wightii var. longicauda (no accessions)
• Neonotonia wightii subsp. wightii var. wightii (1 accessions)

Common names:

• perennial soybean   (Source: Leg WorldEc ) – English
  
• soja pérenne   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• ausdauernde Soja   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• soja-perene   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Portuguese
  

Economic importance:

• Bee plants: potential for honey production   (fide Leg Queensl)
  

More:

View phytochemical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  Northeast Tropical Africa: Chad; Ethiopia; Sudan
  East Tropical Africa: Kenya; Tanzania; Uganda
  West-Central Tropical Africa: Burundi; Cameroon; Gabon; Zaire
  West Tropical Africa: Ghana; Guinea; Liberia; Nigeria; Sierra Leone; Togo
  South Tropical Africa: Angola; Malawi; Mozambique; Zambia; Zimbabwe
  Southern Africa: Botswana
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Arabian Peninsula: Arabia
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: India; Sri Lanka
  Malesia: Indonesia - Java; Malaysia [Malaya]

• naturalized elsewhere

References:

• 't Mannetje, L. & R. M. Jones, eds. 1992. Forages. In: Faridah Hanum, I. & L. J. G. van der Maesen, eds., Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). 4:169.
• Arnold, T. H. & B. C. De Wet, eds. 1993. Plants of southern Africa: names and distribution. Mem. Bot. Surv. S. Africa no. 62.
• Duke, J. A. 1981. Handbook of legumes of world economic importance.
• Englert, J. M. et al. 1999–. USDA-NRCS Improved conservation plant materials released by NRCS and cooperators.
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
• Hacker, J. B. 1990. A guide to herbaceous and shrub legumes of Queensland.
• Huang, S. F. & T. C. Huang. 1987. Taxonomic treatment of the Papilionoideae (Leguminosae) of Taiwan. Taiwania 32:11-117.
• Isely, D. et al. 1980. Neonotonia verdcourtii (Leguminosae): A new glycine-like species from Africa. Iowa State J. Res. 55:157–62.
• Lackey, J. A. 1981. Infraspecific combinations in Neonotonia wightii (Arnott) Lackey (Leguminosae, Papilionoideae). Iselya 2:11–12.
• Lazarides, M. & B. Hince. 1993. CSIRO Handbook of Economic Plants of Australia.
• Lock, J. M. & K. Simpson. 1991. Legumes of West Asia: a checklist.
• Lock, J. M. 1989. Legumes of Africa: a checklist.
• Matthew, K. M. 1983. The flora of the Tamilnadu Carnatic.
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
• Smith, A. C. 1979–1991. Flora vitiensis nova.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Neonotonia wightii.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Neonotonia wightii.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Neonotonia wightii.

Synonyms:

• Glycine claessensii De Wild. [= Neonotonia wightii subsp. wightii var. longicauda]
  
• (=) Glycine javanica auct.
  
• Glycine javanica var. claessensii (De Wild.) Hauman [= Neonotonia wightii subsp. wightii var. longicauda]
  
• Glycine javanica var. mearnsii (De Wild.) Hauman [≡ Neonotonia wightii subsp. petitiana var. mearnsii]
  
• Glycine javanica subsp. micrantha (Hochst. ex A. Rich.) F. J. Herm. [= Neonotonia wightii subsp. wightii var. longicauda]
  
• Glycine javanica var. moniliformis (Hochst. ex A. Rich.) F. J. Herm. [= Neonotonia wightii subsp. wightii var. longicauda]
  
• (=) Glycine javanica var. paniculata Hauman
  
• Glycine longicauda Schweinf. [≡ Neonotonia wightii subsp. wightii var. longicauda]
  
• Glycine mearnsii De Wild. [≡ Neonotonia wightii subsp. petitiana var. mearnsii]
  
• Glycine micrantha Hochst. ex A. Rich. [= Neonotonia wightii subsp. wightii var. longicauda]
  
• Glycine moniliformis Hochst. ex A. Rich. [= Neonotonia wightii subsp. wightii var. longicauda]
  
• Glycine pseudojavanica Taub. [≡ Neonotonia wightii subsp. pseudojavanica]
  
• Glycine wightii (Wight & Arn.) Verdc. [≡ Neonotonia wightii subsp. wightii var. wightii]
  (previously associated with 7 accessions)
• Glycine wightii var. longicauda (Schweinf.) Verdc. [≡ Neonotonia wightii subsp. wightii var. longicauda]
  
• Glycine wightii var. mearnsii (De Wild.) Verdc. [≡ Neonotonia wightii subsp. petitiana var. mearnsii]
  
• Glycine wightii subsp. petitiana (A. Rich.) Verdc. [≡ Neonotonia wightii subsp. petitiana var. petitiana]
  
• Glycine wightii subsp. pseudojavanica (Taub.) Verdc. [≡ Neonotonia wightii subsp. pseudojavanica]
  
• Johnia petitiana A. Rich. [≡ Neonotonia wightii subsp. petitiana var. petitiana]
  
• Johnia wightii Wight & Arn. [≡ Neonotonia wightii subsp. wightii var. wightii]
  

Check other web resources for Neonotonia wightii (Wight & Arn.) J. A. Lackey:

• SIBIS: South African National Biodiversity Institute's (SANBI) Integrated Biodiversity System
• On-line Flora of Zimbabwe
• ILDIS: World Database of Legumes
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Images or nodulation data:

• Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• GRIN nodulation data

More:

• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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