Ampelopsis Explained

Ampelopsis, commonly known as peppervine[1] or porcelainberry, is a genus of climbing shrubs, in the grape family Vitaceae. The name is derived from the Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: ἅμπελος (ampelos), which means "vine".[2] The genus was named in 1803. It is disjunctly distributed in eastern Asia and eastern North America extending to Mexico. Ampelopsis is primarily found in mountainous regions in temperate zones with some species in montane forests at mid-altitudes in subtropical to tropical regions.[3] Ampelopsis glandulosa is a popular garden plant and an invasive weed.

Species

Plants of the World Online currently includes:[4]

  1. Ampelopsis aconitifolia Bunge
  2. Ampelopsis acutidentata W.T.Wang
  3. Ampelopsis bodinieri (H.Lév. & Vaniot) Rehder
  4. Ampelopsis chondisensis (Vassilcz. & V.N.Vassil.) Tulyag.
  5. Ampelopsis cordata Michx. – False grape, raccoon-grape, heart-leaf peppervine or heart-leaf ampelopsis
  6. Ampelopsis delavayana Planch. ex Franch.
  7. Ampelopsis denudata Planch.
  8. Ampelopsis glandulosa (Wall.) Momiy.
  9. Ampelopsis humulifolia Bunge
  10. Ampelopsis japonica (Thunb.) Makino – Japanese peppervine
  11. Ampelopsis mollifolia W.T.Wang
  12. Ampelopsis orientalis (Lam.) Planch.
  13. Ampelopsis tadshikistanica Zaprjagaeva
  14. Ampelopsis tomentosa Planch. ex Franch.
  15. Ampelopsis vitifolia (Boiss.) Planch.
  16. Ampelopsis wangii I.M.Turner

Moved to genus Nekemias

Ecology

Ampelopsis species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species, including Bucculatrix quinquenotella and Sphecodina abbottii.

Fossil record

Fossil seeds from the early Miocene of Ampelopsis ludwigii and Ampelopsis rotundata, have been found in the Czech part of the Zittau Basin.[5] The fossil species Ampelopsis malvaeformis was rather common in northern Italy in the early and middle Pliocene but seems to disappear at the middle and late Pliocene boundary.[6]

Notes and References

  1. Book: English Names for Korean Native Plants . . 2015 . 978-89-97450-98-5 . Pocheon . 350 . 25 January 2016 . . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20170525105020/http://www.forest.go.kr/kna/special/download/English_Names_for_Korean_Native_Plants.pdf . 25 May 2017 .
  2. Ampelopsis. 1. 878.
  3. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants, Edited by K. Kubitzki in collaboration with C. Bayer and P.F. Stevens, Volume IX, Flowering Plants Eudicots, Springer Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2007,
  4. https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:30011875-2 Plants of the World Online: Ampelopsis A.Rich. ex Michx. (retrieved 26 December 2021)
  5. Acta Palaeobotanica - 43(1): 9-49, January 2003 - Early Miocene carpological material from the Czech part of the Zittau Basin - Vasilis Teodoridis
  6. The role of central Italy as a centre of refuge for thermophilous plants in the late Cenozoic, Edoardo Martinetto, Acta Palaeobotan. 41(2): 299-319, 2001

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