Menispermaceae Juss.

First published in Gen. Pl. [Jussieu] 284. 1789 [4 Aug 1789] (1789)nom. cons.
This family is accepted

Accepted Genera

Classification

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POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

  • APG IV (2016) http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/boj.12385

The Kew Tropical Plant Families Identification Handbook

  • Barneby, R. C. & Krukoff, B. A. (1971). Supplementary notes on American Menispermaceae. VIII. A generic survey of the American Triclisieae and Anomospermeae. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 22: 1–89.
  • Barneby, R. C. (1970). Revision of neotropical Menispermaceae tribe Tinosporeae. Mem. New York Bot. Gard.20: 81–158.
  • Forman, L. L. (1986). Menispermaceae. Flora Malesiana, Ser. I, 10: 157–253. National Herbarium of the Netherlands, Leiden.
  • Kessler, P. J. A. (1993b). Menispermaceae. In: K. Kubitzki, J. G. Rohwer & V. Bittrich (eds), The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 2: 402–418. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
  • Troupin, G. (1962). Monographie des Menispermaceae Africaines. Mém. Acad. Roy. Sci. Outre-Mer, Cl. Sci. Nat. Méd., Collect. 8vo., Nouvelle Série 13: 1–313.

Neotropikey

  • Barneby, R. and White, P. (2004). Menispermaceae, pp 247-9. In: Smith, N.A., Mori, S.A., Henderson, A., Stevenson, D.W. and Heald, S.V. (eds.), Flowering plants of the Neotropics. New York Botanical Garden & Princeton University Press, Princeton.
  • Barneby, R.C. (1970). Revision of neotropical Menispermaceae tribe Tinosporeae. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 20: 81-158.
  • Barneby, R.C. and Krukoff B.A. (1971). Supplementary notes on American Menispermaceae. VIII. A generic survey of the American Triclisieae and Anomospermeae. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 22: 1-89.
  • Carlquist, S. (1996). Wood and stem anatomy of Menispermaceae. Aliso 14: 155-170.
  • Diels, L. (1910). Menispermaceae. In: Engler, A., Das Pflanzenreich IV, 94, 1-345.
  • Gentry, A.H. (1993). A Field Guide to the Families and Genera of Woody Plants of Northwest South America with Supplementary Notes on Herbaceous Taxa. University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
  • Hong, Y.-P. Chen, Z.-D. and Lu, A.-M. (2001). Phylogeny of the tribe Menispermeae (Menispermaceae) reconstructed by ITS sequence data. Acta Phytotax. Sinica 39: 97-104.
  • Kessler, P.J.A. (1993). Menispermaceae, pp. 402-418. In: Kubitzki, K., Rohwer, J.G. and Bittrich, V. (eds.), The families and genera of vascular plants, vol. 2. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
  • Krukoff, B.A. and Barneby, R.C. (1970). Supplementary Notes on American Menispermaceae - VI. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 20: 1-70.
  • Krukoff, B.A. and Moldenke, H.N. (1938). Studies of American Menispermaceae, with special reference to species used in preparation of arrow-poisons. Brittonia 3: 1-74.
  • Mathias, M.E. & Theobald, W.L. (1981).  A revision of the genus Hyperbaena.  Brittonia 33(1): 81-104.
  • Ortiz, R. (2000). Systematic revision of Curarea Barneby & Krukoff (Menispermaceae). Master's thesis unpublished, University of Missouri-St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
  • Ortiz, R. (undated). América Tropical - géneros comunes de Menispermaceae. Field Museum Plant Guides: http://fm2.fieldmuseum.org/plantguides/guideimages.asp?ID=283
  • Ortiz, R., Kellogg, A. and van der Werff, H. (2007). Molecular phylogeny of the moonseed family (Menispermaceae): implications for morphological diversification. Amer. J. Bot. 94:1425-1438.

Sources

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  • Neotropikey

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