Sinomenium

Sinomenium
Scientific 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
	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[edit]

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[edit]

^ The Plant List, Sinomenium acutum (Thunb.) Rehder & E.H.Wilson
^ Diels, Friedrich Ludwig Emil. 1910. Das Pflanzenreich IV. 94(Heft 46): 254, 204
^ 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.
^ 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.
^ 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

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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

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