Sinomenium | |
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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] | |
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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.
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]