Vitis flexuosa

Creeping grape
Creeping grape leaves on vines
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Rosids
Order:	Vitales
Family:	Vitaceae
Genus:	Vitis
Species:	V. flexuosa
Binomial name
Vitis flexuosa Thunb. [1]
Synonyms
V. flexuosa var. parvifolia(Roxb.) Gagnep. V. indicaThunb. V. parvifoliaRoxb. V. wallichii DC. List source : [1]

Vitis flexuosa is a species of liana in the grape family.

It has a very large native range in Asian tropical and temperate climate zones.

Distribution

The vine is native to: ^[1]

• East Asia in Taiwan; the Koreas, Hong Kong; the Chinese provinces of Anhui, Fujian, Gansu, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Shaanxi, Shandong, Sichuan, Yunnan, and Zhejiang; and the Japanese prefectures of Hokkaido, Honshu, Kyushu, Shikoku, and the Ryukyu Islands.
• Southeast Asia in Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam.
• Malesia in the Philippines.
• Indian subcontinent in the Indian states of Assam, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Manipur, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal; Nepal; northern Pakistan.

Chemistry

Flexuosol A is a stilbene tetramer found in V. flexuosa. ^[2]

References

1.  Species was first published in Trans. Linn. Soc. London 2:332. 1794 "Vitis flexuosa". Germplasm Resources Information Network . Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture . Retrieved May 13, 2010.
2. Li, W. W.; Li, B. G.; Chen, Y. Z. (1998). "Flexuosol A, a New Tetrastilbene from Vitis flexuosa". Journal of Natural Products. 61 (5): 646–647. doi:10.1021/np970457v. PMID   9599267.