New combinations for the South American Cissus striata clade (Vitaceae)

Julio Lombardi

doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.227.3.10

Issue: Vol. 227 No. 3: 25 September 2015

Type: Correspondence

Published: 2015-09-25

DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.227.3.10

Page range: 295–298

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**New combinations for the South American Cissus striata clade (Vitaceae)**

Julio Lombardi⁺⁻

Universidade Estadual Paulista - UNESP, Instituto de Biociências, Departamento de Botânica, Av. 24A 1515, C.P. 199, 13506-900, Rio Claro, SP, Brazil

Clematicissus nomenclature monophyly South American Eudicots

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Abstract

Phylogenetic studies based on plastid and nuclear data (Soejima & Wen 2006, Wen et al. 2007, Ren et al. 2011, Nie et al. 2012, Rodrigues et al. 2014) have shown that Ampelopsis Michaux (1803: 159) and Cissus Linnaeus (1753: 117) (Vitaceae) are paraphyletic genera.