Draft article not currently submitted for review. This is a draft Articles for creation (AfC) submission. It is not currently pending review. While there are no deadlines, abandoned drafts may be deleted after six months. To edit the draft click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window. To be accepted, a draft should: Show the subject qualifies for a Wikipedia article by using multiple sources that meet four criteria. The sources should be (1) reliable (2) secondary (3) independent of the subject (4) talk about the subject in some depth. For some topics, there are alternative criteria. Be written from a neutral point of view Respect copyright and do not plagiarize. Do not copy-paste. It is strongly discouraged to write about yourself, your business or employer. If you do so, you must declare it. Where to get help If you need help editing or submitting your draft, please ask us a question at the AfC Help Desk or get live help from experienced editors. These venues are only for help with editing and the submission process, not to get reviews. If you need feedback on your draft, or if the review is taking a lot of time, you can try asking for help on the talk page of a relevant WikiProject. Some WikiProjects are more active than others so a speedy reply is not guaranteed. How to improve a draft Wikipedia:Contributing to Wikipedia – a basic overview on how to edit Wikipedia. Help:Wikitext – how to use the markup Help:Referencing for beginners – how to include references Wikipedia:Article development – how to develop your article Wikipedia:Writing better articles – how to improve your article Wikipedia:Verifiability – make sure your article includes reliable third-party sources You can also browse Wikipedia:Featured articles and Wikipedia:Good articles to find examples of Wikipedia's best writing on topics similar to your proposed article. Improving your odds of a speedy review To improve your odds of a faster review, tag your draft with relevant WikiProject tags using the button below. This will let reviewers know a new draft has been submitted in their area of interest. For instance, if you wrote about a female astronomer, you would want to add the Biography, Astronomy, and Women scientists tags. Add tags to your draft Editor resources Find sources:  Google ( books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL Easy tools: Citation bot ( help) | Advanced: Fix bare URLs Last edited by Choess ( talk | contribs) 2 months ago. ( Update) Submit the draft for review!

Abuta Convexa belongs to the Ranunculales order, under the Menispermaceae family, Menispermoideae subfamily, and Anomospermeae tribe¹. It is a species of the Abuta genus, which is a part of the flowering plant family Menispermaceae ². This genus consists of about 32 species, native to tropical Central and South America ².

Abuta species are typically dioecious climbers, or rarely erect trees or shrubs ². They have simple leaves and their flowers are in composed panicles ². The male flowers have six sepals in two whorls, six stamens that can be either connate or free, and anthers with a longitudinal or transverse dehiscence ². The female flowers have sepals and petals similar to the male flowers, six staminodes, and three carpels ². The drupes are ovoid, the endocarp is woody, the condyle is septiform, the endosperm is ruminate, and the embryo is curved ². These species are found in the tropical rain forest ².

Abuta is one of the components of the arrow poison curare used by some indigenous tribes of South America ². Particularly, the roots of Abuta rufescens are used as medicinal in diseases of the urogenital tract ². However, it is considered dangerous ². The dichloromethane extracts of Abuta grandifolia demonstrated high larvicidal activity against Aedes aegypti ².

The basionym of Abuta Convexa is Cissampelos convexa Vell¹. Other heterotypic synonyms include Cissampelos abutua Vell, Cissampelos tomentosa Vell, Cocculus tomentosus Mart, Cocculus macrophyllus A.St.-Hil. & Tul, Cocculus martii A.St.-Hil. & Tul, Abuta heterophylla Miers, and Abuta macrophylla (A.St.-Hil. & Tul.) Miers¹.

^{2 1}