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Genus of vines
Ampelocissus is a genus of
Vitaceae having 90 or more species found variously in
tropical
Africa,
Asia,
Central America, and
Oceania.
[3] The
type species,
A. latifolia, was originally treated under its
basionym, Vitis latifolia, and was collected from the
Indian subcontinent.
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Species of Ampelocissus are
herbaceous or
woody,
hermaphroditic or polygamo-dioecious flowering plants with
tendrils for climbing. Fruits are
grape-like
berries having 1-4 seeds. Their
diploid
chromosomal number is 40 (2n=40).
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Plants of the World Online currently includes:
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"Name - !Ampelocissus Planch". Tropicos.
Saint Louis, Missouri:
Missouri Botanical Garden. Retrieved November 16, 2009.
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"Name - !Ampelocissus Planch. synonyms". Tropicos. Saint Louis, Missouri: Missouri Botanical Garden. Retrieved March 16, 2009.
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"Ampelocissus". Flora of China. Retrieved August 14, 2009.
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^ Chen, I; Manchester, S.R. (September 2007).
"Seed morphology of modern and fossil Ampelocissus (Vitaceae) and implications for phytogeography". American Journal of Botany. 94 (9): 1534–1553.
doi:
10.3732/ajb.94.9.1534.
PMID
21636520.
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"Ampelocissus latifolia".
Germplasm Resources Information Network.
Agricultural Research Service,
United States Department of Agriculture. Retrieved November 15, 2009.
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Plants of the World Online: Ampelocissus Planch. (retrieved 24 December 2021)
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This article incorporates text from a scholarly publication published under a copyright license that allows anyone to reuse, revise, remix and redistribute the materials in any form for any purpose: Wen, J.; Kiapranis, R.; Lovave, M. (2013).
"Ampelocissus asekii J. Wen, R. Kiapranis & M. Lovave, a new species of Vitaceae from Papua New Guinea". PhytoKeys (21): 1–6.
doi:
10.3897/phytokeys.21.4512.
PMC
3689114.
PMID
23794931. Please check the source for the exact licensing terms.