Cissampelos Linnaeus 1753

Angiospermae - Ranunculales - Menispermaceae

Full reference: C. Linnaeus. 1753. Species Plantarum (exhibentes Plantas Rite Cognitas ad Genera Relatas cum Diferentiis Specificis, Nominibus Trivialibus, Synonymis Selectis, Locis Natalibus secundum Systema Sexuale digestas). 1-1200

Parent taxon: Menispermaceae according to B. F. Jacobs and C. H. S. Kabuye 1987

Sister taxa: Bowerbankella, Calkinsia, Canticocculus, Carronia, Cebatha, Chandlera, Cocculeae, Cocculinae, Cocculites, Cocculophyllum, Cocculus, Diploclisia, Entoneuron, Eohypserpa, Fibraureae, Frintonia, Goweri, Hyalosepalum, Hyperbaena, Hypserpa, Martinmuellera, Menispermaphyllum, Menispermeae, Menispermicarpum, Menispermites, Menispermoxylon, Menispina, Microtinomiscium, Odontocaryoidea, Palaeococculus, Palaeosinomenium, Parabaena, Pericampylus, Rhytidocaryon, Stephania, Syntrisepalum, Tinomiscoidea, Tinospora, Tinosporeae, Wardenia, Wardensheppeya, Wilkinsoniphyllum

Subtaxa: Cissampelos caapeba Cissampelos pareira Cissampelos smilacina

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Type: Cissampelos pareira

Ecology: "photoautotroph"

Distribution: found only at BPRP K055 (Miocene of Kenya)

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