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|accepted_name=Akebia
|accepted_authority=Decaisne
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Arch. Mus. Hist. Nat.
|place=1: 195. 1839
|year=1839
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|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Lardizabalaceae;Akebia
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Lardizabalaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Akebia]]</div></div>
|etymology=Japanese akebi, name for Akebia quinata
|volume=Volume 3
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Vines,</b> twining. <b>Leaves</b> palmately compound; leaflets 3-5, articulate at base of blade and at base of petiolule. <b>Inflorescences</b> racemose, pistillate flowers proximal to staminate flowers in each raceme. <b>Flowers</b> dimorphic: pistillate flowers larger and longer pediceled than staminate flowers; sepals mostly brownish to purplish. <b>Staminate</b> flowers: pistillodes present. <b>Pistillate</b> flowers: pistils (3-)-8(-15); placentation laminar; staminodes present. <b>Fruits</b> follicles, fleshy, dehiscent along adaxial suture. <b>Seeds</b> 100-several hundred. <b>x</b> = 16.</span><!--

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|distribution=North America;Asia.
|discussion=<p>Species 4 (1 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p>Pistils in <i>Akebia</i> are incompletely closed distally (W. W. Payne and J. L. Seago 1968).</p>
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|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=anderson1934a
|text=Anderson, E. 1934. The genus Akebia. Bull. Popular Inform. Arnold Arbor., ser. 4, 2: 17-20.
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|id=payne1968a
|text=Payne, W. W. and J. L. Seago. 1968. The open conduplicate carpel of Akebia quinata (Berberidales: Lardizabalaceae). Amer. J. Bot. 55: 575-581.
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|id=sargent1891a
|text=Sargent, C. S. 1891. The fruit of Akebia quinata. Gard. & Forest 4: 136-137.
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|authority=Decaisne
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|family=Lardizabalaceae
|distribution=North America;Asia.
|reference=anderson1934a;payne1968a;sargent1891a
|publication title=Arch. Mus. Hist. Nat.
|publication year=1839
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|genus=Akebia
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