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Arachis
Arachis is a genus of about 70 species of annual and perennial flowering plants in the family (Fabaceae), native to South America, and was recently assigned to the informal monophyletic Pterocarpus clade of the Dalbergieae. At least one species, the peanut (Arachis hypogaea), is a major food crop species of global importance; some of the other species are cultivated for food to a small extent in South America. Other species such as A. pintoi are cultivated worldwide as forage and soil conditioner plants, with the leaves providing high-protein feed for grazing livestock and a nitrogen source in agroforestry and permaculture systems.
Arachis species, including the peanut, are used as food plants by some Lepidoptera species, including the flame shoulder, nutmeg, and turnip moth.
37 branches of this genus, most-observed first
pinto peanut
speciesArachis pintoi
Peanut
speciesArachis hypogaea
perennial peanut
speciesArachis glabrata
creeping peanut
speciesArachis repens
Wild Peanut
speciesArachis duranensis
Arachis villosa
speciesArachis villosa
Arachis dardani
speciesArachis dardani
Arachis burkartii
speciesArachis burkartii
Arachis monticola
speciesArachis monticola
Arachis veigae
speciesArachis veigae
Arachis pusilla
speciesArachis pusilla
Arachis nitida
speciesArachis nitida
Arachis prostrata
speciesArachis prostrata
Arachis villosulicarpa
speciesArachis villosulicarpa
Arachis ipaensis
speciesArachis ipaensis
Arachis helodes
speciesArachis helodes
Arachis cardenasii
speciesArachis cardenasii
Arachis hoehnei
speciesArachis hoehnei
Arachis pietrarellii
speciesArachis pietrarellii
Arachis herzogii
speciesArachis herzogii
Arachis batizocoi
speciesArachis batizocoi
Arachis guaranitica
speciesArachis guaranitica
Arachis seridoensis
speciesArachis seridoensis
Arachis rigonii
speciesArachis rigonii
Arachis benensis
speciesArachis benensis
Arachis williamsii
speciesArachis williamsii
Arachis simpsonii
speciesArachis simpsonii
Arachis archeri
speciesArachis archeri
Arachis triseminata
speciesArachis triseminata
Arachis martii
speciesArachis martii
Arachis cruziana
speciesArachis cruziana
Arachis benthamii
speciesArachis benthamii
Arachis burchellii
speciesArachis burchellii
Arachis kuhlmannii
speciesArachis kuhlmannii
Arachis lutescens
speciesArachis lutescens
Arachis macedoi
speciesArachis macedoi
Arachis stenosperma
speciesArachis stenosperma
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 63196.