Abstract:Using Teyleria and Glycine as outgoups, 11 equally most parsimonious cladograms of Pueraria are yielded from cladistic analysis based on twenty-four morphological characters. The motley assemblage named by Lackey is a group of cladistically most primitive species. The authors indicate that the species in subsections Pulcherrima and Pueraria of section Pueraria discribed by van der Maesen form a monophyly, and subsedion Nonnundiflorae (Section Pueraria)excluding P. imbricata, P.bella and P. alopecuroides, is another monophyly. The sectional status of P.phaseoloides is not warranted. Revisions of the classification of the genus are suggested.
