Vitales Vitales

Vitales - Definition and Overview

Vitaceae
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Plantae
Division:Magnoliophyta
Class:Magnoliopsida
Order:Vitales
Family:Vitaceae
Genera

See text


The Vitaceae (or Vitidaceae) are a family of dicots including the grape and Virginia creeper.

Leea may be included here, or treated as a separate family. These together make up the order Vitales in newer classification systems. Under the older Cronquist system, they were placed in the order Rhamnales.

Genera

  • Acareosperma
  • Ampelocissus
  • Ampelopsis (peppervine)
  • Cayratia
  • Cissus (treebind, treebine)
  • Clematicissus
  • Cyphostemma
  • Nothocissus
  • Parthenocissus (creeper)
  • Pterisanthes
  • Pterocissus
  • Rhoicissus
  • Tetrastigma
  • Vitis (grape)
  • Vua

External link


Copyright 2009 WordIQ.com - Privacy Policy  :: Terms of Use  :: Contact Us  :: About Us
This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the this Wikipedia article.