Heterosmilax

Genus of flowering plants

Heterosmilax
Heterosmilax japonica
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Liliales
Family: Smilacaceae
Genus: Smilax
Section: Heterosmilax
Kunth
Synonyms[1]
  • Oligosmilax Seem.
  • Pseudosmilax Hayata

Heterosmilax was considered a genus of flowering plants in the family Smilacaceae. It was native to southern China and Southeast Asia.[1][2] Subsequent molecular phylogenetic studies showed that it was embedded within another genus, Smilax and was reduced to a section within that genus. [3]

Species
  • Heterosmilax borneensis A.DC. - Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, Borneo, Sumatra
  • Heterosmilax chinensis F.T.Wang - Guangdong, Guangxi, Sichuan, Yunnan
  • Heterosmilax gaudichaudiana (Kunth) Maxim - Vietnam, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan, Taiwan
  • Heterosmilax longiflora K.Y.Guan & Noltie - Yunnan
  • Heterosmilax micrandra T.Koyama - Hainan
  • Heterosmilax micrantha (Blume) Bakh.f. - Java
  • Heterosmilax paniculata Gagnep. - Cambodia, Vietnam
  • Heterosmilax pertenuis (T.Koyama) T.Koyama - Thailand
  • Heterosmilax polyandra Gagnep. - Yunnan, Assam, Laos, Thailand
  • Heterosmilax seisuiensis (Hayata) F.T.Wang & Tang - Taiwan
  • Heterosmilax septemnervia F.T.Wang & Tang - Vietnam, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hubei, Hunan, Sichuan, Yunnan
  • Heterosmilax yunnanensis Gagnep. - Yunnan

References

  1. ^ a b Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  2. ^ Flora of China Vol. 24 Page 115, 肖菝葜属 xiao ba qia shu, Heterosmilax Kunth, Enum. Pl. 5: 270. 1850.
  3. ^ Qi, Zhechen; Cameron, Kenneth M.; Li, Pan; Zhao, Yunpeng; Chen, Shichao; Chen, Guangcun; Fu, Chengxin (December 2013). "Phylogenetics, character evolution, and distribution patterns of the greenbriers, Smilacaceae (Liliales), a near-cosmopolitan family of monocots". Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society. 173 (4): 535–548. doi:10.1111/boj.12096.
Taxon identifiers
Heterosmilax