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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Parthenocissus
|accepted_authority=Planchon in A. L. P. P. de Candolle and C. de Candolle
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Monogr. Phan.
|place=5: 447. 1887
|year=1887
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Psedera
|authority=Necker ex Greene
|rank=genus
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Landukia
|authority=Planchon
|rank=genus
}}
|hierarchy=Vitaceae;Parthenocissus
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Vitaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Parthenocissus]]</div></div>
|etymology=Greek parthenos, virgin, and kissos, ivy; equivalent of vigne vierge, French name for type species, P. quinquefolia
|volume=Volume 12
|mention_page=page 4
|treatment_page=page 16
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Lianas,</b> climbing by tendrils or scrambling without support and producing adventitious roots, synoecious. <b>Branches</b>: bark adherent; pith white, continuous through nodes; tendrils 3–12-branched, with or without adhesive discs. <b>Leaves</b> usually palmately compound, sometimes simple. <b>Inflorescences</b> usually bisexual, leaf-opposed or terminal, paniclelike or corymblike cymes, sometimes compound. <b>Flowers</b> bisexual; calyx cup-shaped, shallowly 5-lobed; petals 5, distinct; nectary adnate to base of ovary, annular, entire, or absent; stamens 5; style conic, short. <b>Berries</b> dark blue or black. <b>Seeds</b> 2–4 per fruit. <b>x</b> = 10.</span><!--

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|distribution=North America;Asia.
|discussion=<p>Species 15 (4 in the flora).</p>
|tables=
|references=
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==Key==
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{| class="wikitable fna-keytable"
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Leaves usually simple, if palmately compound then leaflets 3.
|[[Parthenocissus tricuspidata|Parthenocissus tricuspidata]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Leaves palmately compound, leaflets (4–)5–7.
|[[#key-0-2| > 2]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Leaflets thick, fleshy, (5–)7, 3–5 cm; Edwards Plateau and Lampasas Cut Plain, Texas.
|[[Parthenocissus heptaphylla|Parthenocissus heptaphylla]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Leaflets thin, herbaceous, (4–)5(–7), 4–12 cm; throughout North America, including Edwards Plateau and Lampasas Cut Plain.
|[[#key-0-3| > 3]]
|-id=key-0-3
|3
|Inflorescences dichotomously branched, without distinct central axes; berries 8–12 mm diam.; tendrils (2–)3–5-branched, usually without, rarely with, adhesive discs; leaflets lustrous adaxially.
|[[Parthenocissus vitacea|Parthenocissus vitacea]]
|-id=key-0-3
|3
|Inflorescences divergently branched, with distinct central axes; berries 5–8 mm diam.; tendrils 4–12-branched, with adhesive discs; leaflets dull adaxially.
|[[Parthenocissus quinquefolia|Parthenocissus quinquefolia]]
|}
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Parthenocissus
|authority=Planchon in A. L. P. P. de Candolle and C. de Candolle
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=Psedera;Landukia
|basionyms=
|family=Vitaceae
|distribution=North America;Asia.
|reference=None
|publication title=Monogr. Phan.
|publication year=1887
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/eaa6e58056e40c9ef614d8f47aea294977a1a5e9/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V12/V12_742.xml
|genus=Parthenocissus
}}<!--

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