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Vitaceae
Vitis

not marked as a favorite taxon Vitis Linnaeus. Common name: Grape.

Key to Vitis

A genus of about 70 species, vines, of temperate regions of Eurasia and North America. Newly discovered species in e. Mexico should be recognized in a new subgenus, subgenus Rojovitis, whose relationships to Vitis subg. Vitis and Vitis subg. Muscadinia suggest complex reticulation (Wen et al. 2025). This relationship makes the separation of Muscadinia at genus rank more problematic, so we move to recognition of Muscadinia as a distinctive subgenus of Vitis.

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Tribe: Viteae.

References: Comeaux, Nesbitt, & Fantz (1987); Mabberley (1999); Moore (1991); Moore & Wen (2016) In Flora of North America Editorial Committee (2016); Nie et al. (2012); Ren et al. (2011); Ward (2006b); Weakley et al. (2011); Wen et al. (2018); Wen et al. (2020); Wen et al. (2025); Wen In Kubitzki, Bayer, & Stevens (2007). Show full citations.

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image #1 of Vitis© Gary P. Fleming | Vitis aestivalis var. aestivalis | Original Image ⭷
image #2 of Vitis© Gary P. Fleming | Vitis aestivalis var. bicolor | Original Image ⭷
image #3 of Vitis© Alan Weakley | Vitis vulpina source
image #4 of Vitis© Gary P. Fleming | Vitis riparia | Original Image ⭷
image #6 of Vitis© Gary P. Fleming | Vitis aestivalis var. aestivalis | Original Image ⭷
image #7 of Vitis© Gary P. Fleming | Vitis labrusca | Original Image ⭷
image #8 of Vitis© Gary P. Fleming | Vitis baileyana | Original Image ⭷
image #10 of Vitis© Jay Horn | Vitis rufotomentosa source | Original Image ⭷
image #11 of Vitis© Kaden Slone, some rights reserved (CC BY), uploaded by Kaden Slone | Vitis vinifera source CC-BY | Original Image ⭷ Warning: was NOT research grade.

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