Sinomenium

Sinomenium
Sinomenium acutum in Japan
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[1]
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

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

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