Vitaceae

Life-forms

Classification System: APG IV

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Cladus: Angiosperms
Cladus: Eudicots
Cladus: Core eudicots
Cladus: Rosids
Ordo: Vitales

Familia: Vitaceae
Subfamiliae: Leeoideae – Vitoideae

Genera: Acareosperma – Ampelocissus – Ampelopsis – Cayratia – Causonis – Cissus – Clematicissus – Cyphostemma – Leea – Nekemias – Parthenocissus – Pseudocayratia – Rhoicissus – Tetrastigma – Vitis – Yua

Name

Vitaceae Juss., Gen. Pl. 267. (1789) nom. cons.
Typus: Vitis L. Sp. Pl. 1: 202. (1753)

Synonyms

Heterotypic
Ampelopsidaceae Kostel., Allg. Med.-Pharm. Fl.: 1194 (1835).
Cissaceae Drejer, Comp. Medic. Bot.: 45 (1840).
Leeaceae Dumort., Anal. Fam. Pl.: 21, 27 (1829), nom. cons.
Pterisanthaceae J.Agardh, Theoria Syst. Pl.: 268 (1858).

References

Jussieu, A.L. de 1789. Genera Plantarum 267.
Angiosperm Phylogeny Group. 2016. An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG IV. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 181(1): 1–20. DOI: 10.1111/boj.12385 Reference page.
Govaerts, R. et al. 2020. Vitaceae in Kew Science Plants of the World online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2020 June 11. Reference page.
Hassler, M. 2020. Vitaceae. 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. 2020. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2020 June 11. Reference page.
International Plant Names Index. 2020. Vitaceae. Published online. Accessed: June 11 2020.
Ma, Z.Y., Nie, Z.L., Ren, C., Liu, X.Q., Zimmer, E.A. & Wen, J. 2020. Phylogenomic relationships and character evolution of the grape family (Vitaceae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 154: 106948. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2020.106948 Open access Reference page.
Stevens, P.F. 2001 onwards. Angiosperm Phylogeny Website. Version 14, July 2017 [and more or less continuously updated since]. Online. Reference page.
Wen, J., Boggan, J. & Nie, Z.-L. 2014. Synopsis of Nekemias Raf., a segregate genus from Ampelopsis Michx. (Vitaceae) disjunct between eastern/southeastern Asia and eastern North America, with ten new combinations. PhytoKeys 42: 11-19. DOI: 10.3897/phytokeys.42.7704 Open access Reference page.
Wen, J., Lu, L.M., Nie, Z.L., Liu, X.Q., Zhang, N., Ickert‐Bond, S., Gerrath, J., Manchester, S.R., Boggan, J. & Chen, Z.D. 2018. A new phylogenetic tribal classification of the grape family (Vitaceae). Journal of Systematics and Evolution 56(4): 262-272. DOI: 10.1111/jse.12427 Open access Reference page.
Wen, J., Lu, L.M., Hsu, T.W., Dang, V.C., Habib, S., Boggan, J.K., Okada, H., Chen, I.J. & Chen, Z.D. 2018. Pseudocayratia, a new genus of Vitaceae from China and Japan with two new species and three new combinations. Journal of Systematics and Evolution 56(4): 374-393. DOI: 10.1111/jse.12448 Open access Reference page.

Vernacular names
العربية: كرمية
azərbaycanca: Üzümkimilər
беларуская: Вінаградавыя
català: Vitàcia
čeština: révovité
dansk: Vin-familien
Deutsch: Weinrebengewächse
English: Grape family
Esperanto: Vitacoj
فارسی: انگوریان
suomi: Viiniköynnöskasvit
hornjoserbsce: Winowe rostliny
magyar: szőlővirágúak
日本語: ブドウ科
ქართული: ვაზისებრნი
한국어: 포도과
Lëtzebuergesch: Wäiriefplanzen
lietuvių: Vynmediniai
македонски: Лози
Nederlands: Wijnstokfamilie
norsk: Vinfamilien
polski: winoroślowate
русский: Виноградовые
slovenčina: viničovité
српски / srpski: Лозице
svenska: Vinväxter
తెలుగు: వైటేసి
Türkçe: Asma
Tiếng Việt: Họ Nho
Bân-lâm-gú: Phô-tô-kho
中文: 葡萄科

The Vitaceae are a family of flowering plants, with 14 genera and around 910 known species,[1] including common plants such as grapevines (Vitis spp.) and Virginia creeper (Parthenocissus quinquefolia). The family name is derived from the genus Vitis.

Most Vitis species have 38 chromosomes (n=19), but 40 (n=20) in subgenus Muscadinia, while Ampelocissus, Parthenocissus, and Ampelopsis also have 40 chromosomes (n=20) and Cissus has 24 chromosomes (n=12).

The family is economically important as the berries of Vitis species, commonly known as grapes, are an important fruit crop and, when fermented, produce wine.

Species of the genus Tetrastigma serve as hosts to parasitic plants in the family Rafflesiaceae.

Taxonomy

The name sometimes appears as Vitidaceae, but Vitaceae is a conserved name and therefore has priority over both Vitidaceae and another name sometimes found in the older literature, Ampelidaceae. In the APG III system (2009) onwards, the family is placed in its own order, Vitales. Molecular phylogenetic studies place the Vitales as the most basal clade in the rosids.[2] In the Cronquist system, the family was placed near the family Rhamnaceae in order Rhamnales.

Leea, sometimes classified in its own family, Leeaceae, is included in Vitaceae by APG IV (2016)[2] and the Angiosperm Phylogeny Website.
Genera

Acareosperma
Ampelocissus
Ampelopsis (pepper-vines)
Cayratia
Cissus (treebinds, treebines)
Clematicissus
Cyphostemma
Leea
Nekemias
Nothocissus
Parthenocissus
Pterisanthes
Pterocissus
Rhoicissus
Tetrastigma
Vitis (grapes)
Yua

Earliest fossil history

Well preserved-fruits of Indovitis chitaleyae containing seeds with similar morphology to the Vitaceae have been recovered from Late Cretaceous Deccan Intertrappean beds of several sites in central India. These fruits and their dispersed seeds found in the same sediments, about 66 million years old, represent the oldest known fossils of the grape family. The fossil fruits containing 4 to 6 seeds are very similar to extant Vitis.[3]
References

Christenhusz, M. J. M. & Byng, J. W. (2016). "The number of known plants species in the world and its annual increase". Phytotaxa. Magnolia Press. 261 (3): 201–217. doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.261.3.1.
Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (2016). "An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG IV" (PDF). Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society. 181 (1): 1–20. doi:10.1111/boj.12385.

Manchester, Steven R.; Kapgate, Dashrath K.; Wen, Jun (September 2013). "Oldest fruits of the grape family (Vitaceae) from the Late Cretaceous Deccan cherts of India". Am. J. Bot. 100 (9): 1849–59. doi:10.3732/ajb.1300008. JSTOR 23596215. PMID 24036414..

Jansen, R.K.; Kaittanis, C.; Lee, S.B.; Saski, C.; Tomkins, J.; Alverson, A.J.; Daniell, H. (April 2006). "Phylogenetic analyses of Vitis (Vitaceae) based on complete chloroplast genome sequences: effects of taxon sampling and phylogenetic methods on resolving relationships among rosids". BMC Evol. Biol. 6: 32. doi:10.1186/1471-2148-6-32. PMC 1479384. PMID 16603088.
Vitaceae at the Angiosperm Phylogeny Web
Vitidaceae in L. Watson and M.J. Dallwitz (1992 onwards). The families of flowering plants: descriptions, illustrations, identification, information retrieval. http://delta-intkey.com