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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] |
Dauria
Transbaikal, Trans-Baikal, Transbaikalia ( rus, Забайка́лье, r=Zabaykalye, p=zəbɐjˈkalʲjɪ), or Dauria (, ''Dauriya'') is a mountainous region to the east of or "beyond" (trans-) Lake Baikal in Far Eastern Russia. The steppe and wetland landscapes of Dauria are protected by the Daurian Nature Reserve, which forms part of a World Heritage Site named "The Landscapes of Dauria". Etymology The alternative name of the Transbaikal, ''Dauria'', derives from the ethnonym of the former inhabitants, the Daur people, whom Russian explorers first encountered in 1640. Geography Dauria stretches for almost 1,000 km from north to south from the Patom Plateau and North Baikal Plateau to the Russian state borders with Mongolia and China. The Transbaikal region covers more than 1,000 km from west to east from Lake Baikal to the meridian of the confluence of the Shilka and Argun Rivers. To the west and north lies the Irkutsk Oblast; to the north the Republic of Sa ... [...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] |
Tinospora Cordifolia
''Tinospora cordifolia'' (common names gurjo, heart-leaved moonseed, guduchi or giloy) is a herbaceous vine of the family Menispermaceae indigenous to tropical regions of the Indian subcontinent. It has been used in Ayurveda to treat various disorders, but there is no clinical evidence for the effectiveness of such treatment. Botanical description It is a large, deciduous, extensively-spreading, climbing vine with several elongated twining branches. Leaves are simple, alternate, and exstipulate with long petioles up to long which are roundish and pulvinate, both at the base and apex with the basal one longer and twisted partially and half way around. It gets its name heart-leaved moonseed by its heart-shaped leaves and its reddish fruit. Lamina are broadly ovate or ovate cordate, long or broad, seven nerved and deeply cordate at base, membranous, pubescent above, whitish tomentose with a prominent reticulum beneath. Flowers are unisexual, small on separate plants and appearin ... [...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] |
Pericampylus Glaucus
''Pericampylus'' is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Menispermaceae. Its native range is Tropical and Temperate Asia. Species: * ''Pericampylus glaucus'' (Lam.) Merr. * ''Pericampylus macrophyllus ''Pericampylus'' is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Menispermaceae. Its native range is Tropical and Temperate Asia. Species: * ''Pericampylus glaucus ''Pericampylus'' is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the famil ...'' Forman References {{Taxonbar, from=Q9298023 Menispermaceae Menispermaceae genera ... [...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] |
Cocculus Orbiculatus
''Cocculus orbiculatus'', the queen coralbead, is a species of woody vines. 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] |
Cocculus Hirsutus
''Cocculus hirsutus'' is a tropical, invasive creeper with the common name broom creeper or ''Patalgarudi'' (Sanskrit). It is native to India, Pakistan, and tropical Africa. It is a vine climbing up to , with white to yellowish flowers and dark purple fruits 4 to 8 mm in diameter. References hirsutus Flora of Africa Flora of the Indian subcontinent Flora of Myanmar Plants described in 1860 {{Ranunculales-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cocculus Carolinus
''Cocculus carolinus'', commonly called the Carolina coralbead, or snailseed, or Margil's Vine, is a perennial vine of the moonseed family (Cocculus). It is native to North America, where it is found in Mexico and in several states in the United States from the Southeast to the Midwest. The species' common name derives from the appearance of its small, rounded red fruits, and the rough half-moon shape of its seeds. Description ''Cocculus carolinus'' is a climbing vine reaching 5 meters or more. It produces ovate or triangle-shaped leaves. The male and female flowers are small and green, appearing on different plants. The bright red fruit, a drupe, appears from June to August. It reaches 8 mm in size. Each fruit has a single seed that resembles a small snail shell, protected by the hard endocarp or the inner section of the ovary wall. [...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] |
Anamirta Cocculus
''Anamirta cocculus'' ( mr, काकमारी) is a Southeast Asian and Indian climbing plant. Its fruit is the source of picrotoxin, a poisonous compound with stimulant properties. The plant is large-stemmed (up to 10 cm in diameter); the bark is "corky gray" with white wood. The "small, yellowish-white, sweet-scented" flowers vary between 6 and 10 millimeters across; the fruit produced is a drupe, "about 1 cm in diameter when dry". Chemical substances The stem and the roots contain quaternary alkaloids, such as berberine, palmatine, magnoflorine and columbamine. The seeds deliver picrotoxin, a sesquiterpene, while the seed shells contain the tertiary alkaloids menispermine and paramenispermine. Uses Its crushed seeds are an effective pediculicide (anti-lice) and are also traditionally used to stun fish or as a pesticide. In pharmacology, it is known as Cocculus Indicus. Although poisonous, hard multum is a preparation made from ''Cocculus Indicus'', etc., ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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