{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}} {{automatic taxobox | image = Cissampelos pareira Blanco2.432 edited.jpg | image_caption = ''Cissampelos pareira'' illustration. | taxon = Cissampelos | authority = L. | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = 19, including:<br/> ''Cissampelos capensis''<br/> ''Cissampelos pareira''<br/> ''Cissampelos sympodialis'' }}
'''''Cissampelos''''' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Menispermaceae. Various species of this genus have a history of use in various traditions of herbal medicine. Moreover, many of these plants were used as curare applied as arrow poison during hunting.<ref>{{cite journal | pmid = 24997389 | doi=10.1016/j.jep.2014.06.054 | volume=155 | issue=2 | title=From arrow poison to herbal medicine--the ethnobotanical, phytochemical and pharmacological significance of Cissampelos (Menispermaceae) | journal=J Ethnopharmacol | pages=1011–28 | last1 = Semwal | first1 = DK | last2 = Semwal | first2 = RB | last3 = Vermaak | first3 = I | last4 = Viljoen | first4 = A| year=2014 }}</ref>
''Cissampelos pareira'' is used in Chinese herbology. The species is also known as abuta in Ayurvedic medicine. The Maasai people of Kenya use ''Cissampelos mucronata'' as a forage for their cattle.<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Bussmann | first1 = R. W. | year = 2006 | title = Plant use of the Maasai of Sekenani Valley, Maasai Mara, Kenya | pmc=1475560 |doi=10.1186/1746-4269-2-22 | pmid=16674830| journal = J Ethnobiol Ethnomed | volume = 2 | page = 22 | last2 = Gilbreath | first2 = Genevieve G | last3 = Solio | first3 = John | last4 = Lutura | first4 = Manja | last5 = Lutuluo | first5 = Rumpac | last6 = Kunguru | first6 = Kimaren | last7 = Wood | first7 = Nick | last8 = Mathenge | first8 = Simon G | doi-access = free }}</ref>
==Selected species== 21 accepted species + 1 newly discovered species * ''Cissampelos andromorpha'' <small>DC.</small> * ''Cissampelos arenicola'' <small>Ortiz RdC, MH Nee. 2014</small> New species<ref>[http://www.sci-news.com/biology/science-new-species-sand-dwelling-plant-bolivia-paraguay-01974.html New Species of Sand-Dwelling Plant Discovered in Bolivia, Paraguay]</ref> * ''Cissampelos capensis'' <small>L.f. </small> * ''Cissampelos fasciculata'' <small>Benth.</small> * ''Cissampelos friesiorum'' <small>Diels</small> * ''Cissampelos glaberrima'' <small>A.St.-Hil.</small> * ''Cissampelos grandifolia'' <small>Triana & Planch.</small> * ''Cissampelos hirta'' <small>Klotzsch</small> * ''Cissampelos hispida'' <small>Forman</small> * ''Cissampelos laxiflora'' <small>Moldenke</small> * ''Cissampelos mucronata'' <small>A.Rich.</small> * ''Cissampelos nepalensis'' <small>Rhodes</small> * ''Cissampelos nigrescens'' <small>Diels</small> * ''Cissampelos ovalifolia'' <small>DC.</small> * ''Cissampelos owariensis'' <small>P.Beauv. ex DC.</small> * ''Cissampelos pareira'' <small>L.</small> * ''Cissampelos rigidifolia'' <small>(Engl.) Diels</small> * ''Cissampelos sympodialis'' <small>Eichler</small> * ''Cissampelos tenuipes'' <small>Engl.</small> * ''Cissampelos torulosa'' <small>E.Mey. ex Harv. & Sond.</small> * ''Cissampelos tropaeolifolia'' <small>DC.</small> * ''Cissampelos verticillata'' <small>Rhodes</small>
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *[http://www.africamuseum.be/collections/external/prelude/view_symptom?si=H(178)] *https://web.archive.org/web/20131105201226/http://www.africamuseum.be/prelude/prelude_pic/Cissampelos_mucronata2.jpg - plant image
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Category:Menispermaceae Category:Menispermaceae genera Category:Plants used in traditional Chinese medicine
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