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Menispermum
''Menispermum'' (moonseed) is a small genus of deciduous climbing woody vines in the moonseed family (Menispermaceae). Plants in this genus have small dioecious flowers, and clusters of small grape-like drupes. The name, moonseed, comes from the shape of the seed, which resembles a crescent moon. The word ''Menispermum'' is derived from the Greek words μήν (''mēn''), meaning (crescent) moon, and σπέρμα (''sperma'') meaning seed. The common name moonseed is also applied to some other species in the related genus ''Cocculus''. Species There are only two recognised species in the genus ''Menispermum'' these being : * '' Menispermum canadense'' L. – Canadian moonseed, Ghost grape (northeastern North America) * ''Menispermum dauricum'' DC. – Asian or Daurian moonseed, named for the homeland of the Daur, a Mongolic people inhabiting the part of Northeast Asia to which the plant is native. Common name in Chinese : 蝙蝠葛 ( bian fu ge ). Formerly placed here ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Menispermum Dauricum
''Menispermum'' (moonseed) is a small genus of deciduous climbing woody plants, woody vines in the moonseed family (Menispermaceae). Plants in this genus have small dioecious flowers, and clusters of small grape-like drupes. The name, moonseed, comes from the shape of the seed, which resembles a crescent moon. The word ''Menispermum'' is derived from the Greek language, Greek words μήν (''mēn''), meaning (crescent) moon, and σπέρμα (''sperma'') meaning seed. The common name moonseed is also applied to some other species in the related genus ''Cocculus''. Species There are only two recognised species in the genus ''Menispermum'' these being : * ''Menispermum canadense'' L. – Canadian moonseed, Ghost grape (northeastern North America) * ''Menispermum dauricum'' DC. – Asian or Daurian moonseed, named for the homeland of the Daur people, Daur, a Mongols, Mongolic people inhabiting the part of Northeast Asia to which the plant is native. Common name in Chinese : ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Menispermum Canadense
''Menispermum canadense'', the Canadian moonseed, common moonseed, or yellow parilla, is a flowering plant in the family Menispermaceae, native to eastern North America, from southern Canada south to northern Florida, and from the Atlantic coast west to Manitoba and Texas. It occurs in thickets, moist woods, and the banks of streams. Description It is a woody climbing vine growing to tall. The leaves are palmately lobed, in diameter with 3–7 shallow lobes, occasionally rounded and unlobed. The fruit are produced in diameter clusters of purple-black berries, each berry is 1–1.5 cm in diameter. The seed inside the berry resembles a crescent moon, and is responsible for the common name. The fruit is ripe between September and October, the same general time frame in which wild grapes are ripe. Both the leaves and fruit resemble those of grapes; confusion can be dangerous as moonseed fruit is poisonous. The root is a rhizome, so one specimen can form colonies of gen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Menispermaceae
Menispermaceae (botanical Latin: 'moonseed family' from Greek ''mene'' 'crescent moon' and ''sperma'' 'seed') is a family of flowering plants. The alkaloid tubocurarine, a neuromuscular blocker and the active ingredient in the 'tube curare' form of the dart poison curare, is derived from the South American liana ''Chondrodendron tomentosum''. Several other South American genera belonging to the family have been used to prepare the 'pot' and 'calabash' forms of curare. The family contains 68 genera with some 440 species, which are distributed throughout low-lying tropical areas with some species present in temperate and arid regions. Description * Twining woody climbing plants, winding anti-clockwise (''Stephania'' winds clockwise) or vines, rarely upright shrubs or small trees, more rarely still herbaceous plants or epiphytes (''Stephania cyanantha''), perennial or deciduous, with simple to uni-serrate hairs. * Alternate spiral leaves, simple, whole, dentate, lobed to palmatifid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cocculus Orbiculatus
''Cocculus orbiculatus'', the queen coralbead, is a species of woody vine A vine (Latin ''vīnea'' "grapevine", "vineyard", from ''vīnum'' "wine") is any plant with a growth habit of trailing or scandent (that is, climbing) stems, lianas or runners. The word ''vine'' can also refer to such stems or runners themsel ...s. It is found from India east to Java. References External links * * orbiculatus Plants described in 1817 {{Ranunculales-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sinomenium Acutum
''Sinomenium'' is a genus of plant in family Menispermaceae first described as a genus in 1910. It contains only one known species, ''Sinomenium acutum'', native to China, northern India, Nepal, Japan, northern Thailand, and also Korea. Fossil record ''Sinomenium'' macrofossils have been recovered from the late Zanclean stage of Pliocene sites in Pocapaglia, Italy. Macrofossils of ''Sinomenium cantalense'' have been recovered from the Zanclean stage of the Pliocene epoch in Western Georgia in the Caucasus region.The History of the Flora and Vegetation of Georgia by Irina Shatilova, Nino Mchedlishvili, Luara Rukhadze, Eliso Kvavadze, Georgian National Museum Institute of Paleobiology, Tbilisi Tbilisi ( ; ka, თბილისი ), in some languages still known by its pre-1936 name Tiflis ( ), is the Capital city, capital and the List of cities and towns in Georgia (country), largest city of Georgia (country), Georgia, lying on the ... 2011, References Menispermaceae ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jateorhiza Palmata
''Jateorhiza palmata'' (calumba) is a perennial climbing plant from East Africa. It contains isoquinoline alkaloids and is used mainly as a bitter tonic especially in cases of anorexia nervosa. It contains no tannins, hence it can be safely used in iron preparations for the treatment of anaemia without the fear of precipitation resulted from ''in vitro ''In vitro'' (meaning in glass, or ''in the glass'') studies are performed with microorganisms, cells, or biological molecules outside their normal biological context. Colloquially called " test-tube experiments", these studies in biology ...'' interaction. Description Tall, dioecious twining perennial vine; often reaching the tops of trees. The annual stems, one or two from each root, are hair with glandular tips and have large bright green membranous leaves which are palmate, alternate and long petioled. The flowers are insignificant and greenish white. The female flower is followed by moon-shaped stone in a drupe. Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Calycocarpum Lyonii
''Calycocarpum'' (cupseed) is a monotypic genus of plants in the family Menispermaceae. The only species currently accepted is ''Calycocarpum lyonii'' endemic to the southeastern United States. ''Calycocarpum lyonii'' has been reported from Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Arkansas, southeastern Kansas, Missouri, southern Illinois, southern Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, northwestern Florida and southern South Carolina. It grows mostly along stream banks in deciduous forests at elevations less than 350 m. ''Calycocarpum lyonii'' is a vine climbing over other vegetation, often to the tops of tall forest trees. Leaves are broad, pentagonally lobed, up to 30 across and 25 cm long. Flowers are borne in racemes or panicles up to 35 cm long. Drupes In botany, a drupe (or stone fruit) is an indehiscent fruit in which an outer fleshy part (exocarp, or skin, and mesocarp, or flesh) surrounds a single shell (the ''pit'', ''stone'', or '' pyrena'') o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grape
A grape is a fruit, botanically a berry, of the deciduous woody vines of the flowering plant genus ''Vitis''. Grapes are a non- climacteric type of fruit, generally occurring in clusters. The cultivation of grapes began perhaps 8,000 years ago, and the fruit has been used as human food over history. Eaten fresh or in dried form (as raisins, currants and sultanas), grapes also hold cultural significance in many parts of the world, particularly for their role in winemaking. Other grape-derived products include various types of jam, juice, vinegar and oil. History The Middle East is generally described as the homeland of grape and the cultivation of this plant began there 6,000–8,000 years ago. Yeast, one of the earliest domesticated microorganisms, occurs naturally on the skins of grapes, leading to the discovery of alcoholic drinks such as wine. The earliest archeological evidence for a dominant position of wine-making in human culture dates from 8,000 years ago in Georg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cocculus
''Cocculus'' is a genus of 11 species of woody vines and shrubs, native to warm temperate to tropical regions of North America, Asia and Africa. The common name moonseed is also used for the closely related genus '' Menispermum''. Selected species *''Cocculus carolinus'' ( L.) DC. – red-berried moonseed or Carolina moonseed (southeastern United States) *''Cocculus diversifolius'' DC. – correhuela (southern Texas, southern Arizona and northern Mexico) *''Cocculus hirsutus'' (L.) Diels (tropical Africa east to India and Nepal) *''Cocculus laurifolius'' DC. – laurel-leaved snail tree (Himalayas east to Japan) *''Cocculus orbiculatus'' (L.) DC. – queen coralbead (India east to Java) *''Cocculus sarmentosus'' ( Lour.) Diels (Taiwan) Formerly placed here *'' Jateorhiza palmata'' (Lam.) Miers (as ''C. palmatus'' (Lam.) DC.) *''Pericampylus glaucus'' (Lam.) Merr. (as ''C. incanus'' Colebr.) *'' Sinomenium acutum'' (Thunb.) Rehder & E.H.Wilson (as ''C. diversi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family (taxonomy), family. In binomial nomenclature, the genus name forms the first part of the binomial species name for each species within the genus. :E.g. ''Panthera leo'' (lion) and ''Panthera onca'' (jaguar) are two species within the genus ''Panthera''. ''Panthera'' is a genus within the family Felidae. The composition of a genus is determined by taxonomy (biology), taxonomists. The standards for genus classification are not strictly codified, so different authorities often produce different classifications for genera. There are some general practices used, however, including the idea that a newly defined genus should fulfill these three criteria to be descriptively useful: # monophyly – all descendants ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mongols
The Mongols ( mn, Монголчууд, , , ; ; russian: Монголы) are an East Asian ethnic group native to Mongolia, Inner Mongolia in China and the Buryatia Republic of the Russian Federation. The Mongols are the principal member of the large family of Mongolic peoples. The Oirats in Western Mongolia as well as the Buryats and Kalmyks of Russia are classified either as distinct ethno-linguistic groups or subgroups of Mongols. The Mongols are bound together by a common heritage and ethnic identity. Their indigenous dialects are collectively known as the Mongolian language. The ancestors of the modern-day Mongols are referred to as Proto-Mongols. Definition Broadly defined, the term includes the Mongols proper (also known as the Khalkha Mongols), Buryats, Oirats, the Kalmyk people and the Southern Mongols. The latter comprises the Abaga Mongols, Abaganar, Aohans, Baarins, Chahars, Eastern Dorbets, Gorlos Mongols, Jalaids, Jaruud, Kharchins, Khishig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tinospora Crispa
''Tinospora'' is a genus of succulent woody climbing shrubs. Thirty-four species are currently recognized. Species generally send down long aerial roots from host trees. They have corky or papery bark. They are found in tropical and sub-tropical parts of Asia, Africa and Australia. The most common species are '' T. cordifolia'' and '' T. crispa''. Species ''Tinospora'' species accepted by the Plants of the World Online as of April 2021: *'' Tinospora arfakiana'' *'' Tinospora baenzigeri'' *'' Tinospora bakis'' *'' Tinospora celebica'' *''Tinospora cordifolia'' *'' Tinospora crispa'' *'' Tinospora dentata'' *'' Tinospora dissitiflora'' *'' Tinospora esiangkara'' *'' Tinospora formanii'' *'' Tinospora fragosa'' *''Tinospora glabra'' *'' Tinospora glandulosa'' *'' Tinospora guangxiensis'' *'' Tinospora hainanensis'' *''Tinospora hirsuta'' *'' Tinospora homosepala'' *'' Tinospora macrocarpa'' *''Tinospora maqsoodiana'' *''Tinospora merrilliana'' *''Tinospora neoc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
