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Vitaceae

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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

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