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Vitaceae The Grape Family

Vitaceae The Grape Family. Vitaceae. 11 genera, 700 species Largest genus is Cissus (300 species). Vitaceae. Habit - shrubs or small trees, vines. Leaves alternate, simple, or compound. Can be pinnately or palmately veined. Margins are lobed or divided, dentate.

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Vitaceae The Grape Family

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  1. VitaceaeThe Grape Family

  2. Vitaceae 11 genera, 700 speciesLargest genus is Cissus (300 species)

  3. Vitaceae • Habit - shrubs or small trees, vines. • Leaves alternate, simple, or compound. Can be pinnately or palmately veined. Margins are lobed or divided, dentate. • Flowers bisexual or unisexual, actinomorphic, infl. a raceme, panicle, or cyme

  4. Vitis riparia. Wild Grape • Perennial • Leaves are alternate, often with opposite tendrils and long petioles. cordate or orbicular in overall shape, and palmately lobed • margins are coarsely serrated and slightly ciliate • small greenish-white or greenish-yellow flowers have 5 tiny petals, long exerted stamens, and a fragrant musky scent. Along with the tendrils, they occur in clusters opposite from the leaves, except every third one. • present across nearly the entire eastern half of North America, excepting the far south and the most western portions of the great plains

  5. Parthenocissus spp. Virginia Creeper. • The alternate leaves are palmately compound, usually consisting of 5 leaflets (rarely 3 or 7). • They are ovate or obovate and coarsely serrated (at least along the upper half of their margins). • On each plant, the flowers may be perfect, staminate only, pistillate only, or both staminate and pistillate.

  6. Works Cited • http://botany.csdl.tamu.edu • http://us.mirror.gbif.org/species/13146242 • http://www.illinoiswildflowers.info/trees/plants/riverbank_grape.htm

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