Cissampelos
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| Cissampelos pareira illustration. | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Order: | Ranunculales |
| Family: | Menispermaceae |
| Genus: | Cissampelos L. |
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Cissampelos is a genus of flowering plants in the family Menispermaceae. Various species of this genus have a history of use in various traditions of herbal medicine. Moreover, many of these plants were used as curare applied as arrow poison during hunting.[1]
Cissampelos pareira is used in Chinese herbology. The species is also known as abuta in Ayurvedic medicine. The Maasai people of Kenya use Cissampelos mucronata as a forage for their cattle.[2]
Selected species
[edit]21 accepted species + 1 newly discovered species
- Cissampelos andromorpha DC.
- Cissampelos arenicola Ortiz RdC, MH Nee. 2014 New species[3]
- Cissampelos capensis L.f.
- Cissampelos fasciculata Benth.
- Cissampelos friesiorum Diels
- Cissampelos glaberrima A.St.-Hil.
- Cissampelos grandifolia Triana & Planch.
- Cissampelos hirta Klotzsch
- Cissampelos hispida Forman
- Cissampelos laxiflora Moldenke
- Cissampelos mucronata A.Rich.
- Cissampelos nepalensis Rhodes
- Cissampelos nigrescens Diels
- Cissampelos ovalifolia DC.
- Cissampelos owariensis P.Beauv. ex DC.
- Cissampelos pareira L.
- Cissampelos rigidifolia (Engl.) Diels
- Cissampelos sympodialis Eichler
- Cissampelos tenuipes Engl.
- Cissampelos torulosa E.Mey. ex Harv. & Sond.
- Cissampelos tropaeolifolia DC.
- Cissampelos verticillata Rhodes
References
[edit]- ^ Semwal, DK; Semwal, RB; Vermaak, I; Viljoen, A (2014). "From arrow poison to herbal medicine--the ethnobotanical, phytochemical and pharmacological significance of Cissampelos (Menispermaceae)". J Ethnopharmacol. 155 (2): 1011–28. doi:10.1016/j.jep.2014.06.054. PMID 24997389.
- ^ Bussmann, R. W.; Gilbreath, Genevieve G; Solio, John; Lutura, Manja; Lutuluo, Rumpac; Kunguru, Kimaren; Wood, Nick; Mathenge, Simon G (2006). "Plant use of the Maasai of Sekenani Valley, Maasai Mara, Kenya". J Ethnobiol Ethnomed. 2: 22. doi:10.1186/1746-4269-2-22. PMC 1475560. PMID 16674830.
- ^ New Species of Sand-Dwelling Plant Discovered in Bolivia, Paraguay
External links
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- https://web.archive.org/web/20131105201226/http://www.africamuseum.be/prelude/prelude_pic/Cissampelos_mucronata2.jpg - plant image
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