Parthenocissus
| Parthenocissus | |
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| Parthenocissus quinquefolia, foliage and fruit | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Vitales |
| Family: | Vitaceae |
| Subfamily: | Vitoideae
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| Genus: | Parthenocissus Planch. |
Parthenocissus
Etymology
The name derives from the Greek parthenos, "virgin", and kissos (Latinized as "cissus"), "ivy". The reason is variously given as the ability of these creepers to form seeds without pollination[4] or the English name of P. quinquefolia, Virginia creeper, which has become attached to the whole genus.[5]
Fossil record
Among the middle
subtropical climate during the middle Miocene in Austria.[6]
Food plants
Parthenocissus species are used as food plants by the
brown-tail and Gothic
.
Species
From Asia
- Three leaved
- Parthenocissus chinensis, this species grows in dry areas between 1300 and 2300 m in China in the west of both Sichuan and Yunnan.
- Parthenocissus heterophylla, from China and Taiwan
- Parthenocissus semicordata, from the Himalaya
- Parthenocissus feddei, this species grows in rocky places between elevations of 600 and 1100 m in the Chinese provinces of Guangdong, Guizhou, Hubei and Hunan
- Five leaved
- Parthenocissus henryana, Chinese Virginia creeper from China
- Parthenocissus laetevirens
- One or three leaved
- Parthenocissus dalzielii, from east and south-east Asia
- Parthenocissus suberosa
- Parthenocissus tricuspidata, Japanese creeper or Boston ivy, from eastern Asia
From North America
- Seven or five-leaved
- Parthenocissus heptaphylla, sevenleaf creeper, from Texas and Mexico
- Parthenocissus inserta, thicket creeper, woodbine, or grape woodbine, from western and northern North America
- Parthenocissus quinquefolia, Virginia creeper, from eastern North America
References
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- ^ Sunset Western Garden Book, 1995:606–607
- ^ ISBN 978-1405332965.
- ^ Ze-Long Nie a.o., "Molecular phylogeny and biogeographic diversification of Parthenocissus (Vitaceae) disjunct between Asia and North America", in: American Journal of Botany 97: p. 1342 (2010)
- ISBN 0-471-16158-6. Retrieved 2008-03-09.
- ISBN 9781604691962.
- ^ Combined LM and SEM study of the middle Miocene (Sarmatian) palynoflora from the Lavanttal Basin, Austria: part III. Magnoliophyta 1 – Magnoliales to Fabales, Friðgeir Grímsson, Barbara Meller, Johannes M. Bouchal & Reinhard Zetter, Grana 2015, Vol 54, No. 2, 85-128.
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