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Stephania

Angiospermae - Ranunculales - Menispermaceae

Taxonomy
Stephania was named by Loureiro (1790). It is extant. It was considered monophyletic by Herrera et al. (2011).

It was assigned to Menispermaceae by Chauhan (1991), Herrera et al. (2011) and Stiles et al. (2020).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1790Stephania Loureiro pp. 598, 608
1991Stephania Chauhan
2011Stephania Herrera et al. p. 2006
2020Stephania Stiles et al.

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomPlantae
phylumSpermatophyta
classAngiospermae
Mesangiosperms
RankNameAuthor
EudicotsDoyle and Hotton 1991
orderRanunculales
familyMenispermaceaede Jussieu 1789
genusStephaniaLoureiro 1790

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

G. Stephania Loureiro 1790
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Stephania hootae Collinson et al. 2012
Stephania palaeosudamericana Herrera et al. 2011
Stephania psittaca Jud et al. 2018
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available