Calycocarpum

Life-forms

Classification System: APG IV

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Cladus: Angiosperms
Cladus: Eudicots
Ordo: Ranunculales

Familia: Menispermaceae
Subfamilia: Chasmantheroideae
Tribus: Burasaieae
Genus: Calycocarpum
Name

Calycocarpum (Nutt.) Spach, Hist. Nat. Vég. 8: 7. 1838.
Synonymy

Basionym
Menispermum sect. Calycocarpum Nutt. in Torr. & A.Gray, Fl. N. Amer. 1(1): 48. 1838.
Type species: Menispermum lyonii Pursh, Fl. Amer. Sept. 2: 371. 1814 [1813].

Overview of species
Accepted species

C. lyonii

Paleospecies: †C. crassicrustae
Source(s) of checklist:
List based on accepted species according to Manchester (1994) and Rhodes (1997).
References

Manchester, S.R. 1994. Fruits and seeds of the Middle Eocene Nut Beds flora, Clarno Formation, Oregon. Palaeontographica Americana 58: 1–205. BHL PDF Reference page.
Rhodes, D.G. 1997. 18. Menispermaceae Jussieu. Pp. 295–299 in Flora of North America, Vol. 3, Magnoliophyta: Magnoliidae and Hamamelidae. Oxford University Press, New York, Oxford. ISBN 0-19-511246-6. Online Reference page.
International Plant Names Index. 2019. Calycocarpum. Published online. Accessed: 27 March 2019.
Farr, E.R. & Zijlstra, G. (eds.) 1996 onwards. Calycocarpum in Index Nominum Genericorum (Plantarum). Accessed: 2019 March 27.
Global Biodiversity Information Facility. 2019. GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset. Taxon: Calycocarpum.
USDA, ARS, Germplasm Resources Information Network. Calycocarpum in the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN), U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service. Accessed: 2019-03-27.
Hassler, M. 2019. Calycocarpum. World Plants: Synonymic Checklists of the Vascular Plants of the World In: Roskovh, Y., Abucay, L., Orrell, T., Nicolson, D., Bailly, N., Kirk, P., Bourgoin, T., DeWalt, R.E., Decock, W., De Wever, A., Nieukerken, E. van, Zarucchi, J. & Penev, L., eds. 2019. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life. Published online. Accessed: 2019 March 27. Reference page.

Tropicos.org 2019. Calycocarpum. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 27 March 2019.

Calycocarpum (cupseed) is a monotypic genus of plants in the family Menispermaceae. The only species currently accepted is Calycocarpum lyonii endemic to the southeastern United States.[2]

Calycocarpum lyonii has been reported from Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Arkansas, southeastern Kansas, Missouri, southern Illinois, southern Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, northwestern Florida and southern South Carolina. It grows mostly along stream banks in deciduous forests at elevations less than 350 m.[3][4]

Calycocarpum lyonii is a vine climbing over other vegetation, often to the tops of tall forest trees. Leaves are broad, pentagonally lobed, up to 30 across and 25 cm long. Flowers are borne in racemes or panicles up to 35 cm long. Drupes are green, drying black, spherical to ellipsoid, up to 25 mm long.[3][5][6][7][8][9]
References

"Calycocarpum lyonii (Pursh) A.Gray". World Checklist of Selected Plant Families (WCSP). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 5 March 2014 – via The Plant List.
Flora of North America vol 3
Flora of North America vol 3
Correll, D. S. & M. C. Johnston. 1970. Manual of the Vascular Plants of Texas i–xv, 1–1881. The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson
Gray, Asa. 1848. Genera Florae Americae Boreali-Orientalis Illustrata 1: 76.
Pursh, Frederick Traugott. 1814. Flora Americae Septentrionalis 2: 371.
Wunderlin, R. P. 1998. Guide to the Vascular Plants of Florida i–x, 1–806. University Press of Florida, Gainesville.
Southeastern Flora, Calycocarpum lyonii
Sperry Herbarium Common Woody Plants of southeast Kansas, Calycocarpum lyonii