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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Anredera
|accepted_authority=Jussieu
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Gen. Pl.,
|place=84. 1789
|year=1789
}}
|common_names=Madeira-vine
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Boussingaultia
|authority=Kunth
}}
|hierarchy=Basellaceae;Anredera
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Basellaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Anredera]]</div></div>
|etymology=for Anreder, about whom nothing else is known
|volume=Volume 4
|mention_page=page 505
|treatment_page=page 506
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Roots </b>fibrous or tuberous-thickened, fleshy. <b>Stems</b> herbaceous, not ridged, to 3 cm diam.; epidermis scaly and exfoliating with age; aerial tubers axillary, basal, or absent. <b>Leaves</b> petiolate to subsessile; blade orbicular to elliptic, ovate, or cordate, base cuneate to truncate or cordate, margins entire, apex acute to acuminate or obtuse. <b>Inflorescences</b> indeterminate, axillary or terminal, racemose or clusters of racemes; bracts persistent or deciduous, connate or distinct, membranous to succulent. <b>Flowers</b> bisexual or functionally unisexual, fragrant, pedicellate; sepals distinct or basally connate, adaxially rounded to keeled, elliptic to ovate or obovate, basally adnate to petals, apex acute or obtuse; petals 5, distinct ± to base, erect to spreading or reflexed at anthesis; stamens opposite petals; filaments recurved in bud, flattened and proximally dilated; anthers versatile, dehiscence longitudinal; pollen pantoporate, spheric; pistils globose to ovoid; stigmas clavate to capitate or 2-lobed. <b>Utricles</b> partly to completely enclosed in persistent, dry perianth, wing or not. <b>Seeds</b> erect, laterally flattened to nearly globose. <b>x</b> = 12.</span><!--

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|distribution=North America;West Indies;Central America;South America;introduced in Eurasia;Africa;Pacific Islands;Australia.
|discussion=<p>Species 12 (2 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p><i>Anredera cordifolia</i> (Tenore) Steenis has been shown to have anti-inflammatory, anti-ulcer, and liver-protective effects in rats (as Boussingaultia gracilis; Lin C. C. et al. 1994; Lin W. C. et al. 1995, 1996). <i>Anredera vesicaria</i> (Lamarck) Gaertner has been used in Mexico to treat broken bones and flesh wounds (as A. scandens; R. Mata 1993).</p>
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==Key==
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{| class="wikitable fna-keytable"
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Larger leaves proximal to inflorescence cordate at base; pedicel bracts basally connate, per- sisting at apex of pedicel; sepals not winged in fruit; axillary tubers often produced
|[[Anredera cordifolia|Anredera cordifolia]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Larger leaves proximal to inflorescence tapering at base; pedicel bracts distinct, deciduous; sepals winged in fruit; without axillary tubers
|[[Anredera vesicaria|Anredera vesicaria]]
|}
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name=Anredera
|author=
|authority=Jussieu
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=Boussingaultia
|basionyms=
|family=Basellaceae
|distribution=North America;West Indies;Central America;South America;introduced in Eurasia;Africa;Pacific Islands;Australia.
|reference=None
|publication title=Gen. Pl.,
|publication year=1789
|special status=
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|genus=Anredera
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