Heterosmilax

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
  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.