Cissampelos
Cissampelos pareira illustration.
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Order: Ranunculales
Family: Menispermaceae
Genus: Cissampelos
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Species

19, including:
Cissampelos capensis
Cissampelos pareira
Cissampelos sympodialis

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, where it is called xí shēng téng (锡生藤) or yà hū nú (亞乎奴). The species is also known as abuta and is also called laghu patha in Ayurvedic medicine.

The Maasai people of Kenya use Cissampelos mucronata as a forage for their cattle.[2]

Selected species

21 accepted species + 1 newly discovered species

References

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ New Species of Sand-Dwelling Plant Discovered in Bolivia, Paraguay

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