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Sinomenium

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Sinomenium
Sinomenium acutum in Japan
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Order: Ranunculales
Family: Menispermaceae
Genus: Sinomenium
Diels
Species:
S. acutum
Binomial name
Sinomenium acutum
(Thunb.) Rehder & E.H.Wilson
Synonyms[1]
  • Cocculus diversifolius Miq. 1867, illegitimate homonym, not DC. 1817
  • Cocculus diversifolius var. cinereus Diels
  • Cocculus variiformis Hemsl.
  • Marsdenia acuta (Thunb.) Tanaka
  • Menispermum acutum Thunb.
  • Menispermum diversifolium Spreng.
  • Menispermum diversifolium Gagnep.
  • Menispermum diversifolium var. molle Gagnep.
  • Sinomenium acutum var. cinereum (Diels) Rehder & E.H.Wilson
  • Sinomenium diversifolium Diels (type species)

Sinomenium is a genus of plant in family Menispermaceae first described as a genus in 1910.[2] It contains only one known species, Sinomenium acutum, native to China, northern India, Nepal, Japan, northern Thailand,[3] and also Korea.

Fossil record

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Sinomenium macrofossils have been recovered from the late Zanclean stage of Pliocene sites in Pocapaglia, Italy.[4] Macrofossils of Sinomenium cantalense have been recovered from the Zanclean stage of the Pliocene epoch in Western Georgia in the Caucasus region.[5]

References

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  1. ^ The Plant List, Sinomenium acutum (Thunb.) Rehder & E.H.Wilson
  2. ^ Diels, Friedrich Ludwig Emil. 1910. Das Pflanzenreich IV. 94(Heft 46): 254, 204
  3. ^ Flora of China Vol. 7 Page 15 风龙 feng long Sinomenium acutum (Thunberg) Rehder & E. H. Wilson in Sargent, Pl. Wilson. 1: 387. 1913.
  4. ^ Messian to Zanclean vegetation and climate of Northern and Central Italy by Adele Bertini & Edoardo Martinetto, Bollettino della Societa Paleontologica Italiana, 47 (2), 2008, 105-121. Modena, 11 lugio 2008.
  5. ^ 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 2011, ISBN 978-9941-9105-3-1