Abuta

Classification System: APG IV

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

Familia: Menispermaceae
Subfamilia: Menispermoideae
Tribus: Anomospermeae
Genus: Abuta
Name

Abuta Barrère ex Aubl., Hist. Pl. Guiane 1: 618. 1775. – Hist. Pl. Guiane 4: t. 250. 1775.
Synonymy

Heterotypic
Batschia Mutis ex Thunb., Nova Acta Regiae Soc. Sci. Upsal., ser. 2, 5: 120, t. 2. 1792, nom. illeg. hom. – non Batschia J.F.Gmel., Syst. Nat., ed. 13[bis], 2(1): 315. 1791.
Trichoa Pers., Syn. Pl. [Persoon] 2(2): 634. 1807.
Type species: as for Batschia Mutis ex Thunb.
Anelasma Miers, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 2, 7(37): 37, 42(–43). 1851.
Type species: Anelasma gardnerianum Miers, Contr. Bot. 3: 93. 1871.

Overview of species
Accepted species

A. antioquiana – A. aristeguietae – A. barbata – A. brevifolia – A. bullata – A. candollei – A. chiapasensis – A. chocoensis – A. colombiana – A. convexa – A. dwyeriana – A. fluminum – A. grandifolia – A. grisebachii – A. imene – A. longa – A. mycetandra – A. obovata – A. pahnii – A. panamensis – A. panurensis – A. racemosa – A. rufescens – A. sandwithiana – A. seemannii – A. selloana – A. solimoesensis – A. steyermarkii – A. vaupesensis – A. velutina
Source(s) of checklist:
List based on accepted species according to checklists from Mesoamerica, Antioquia (Colombia), Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, the Guiana Shield, Brazil, and southern South America (Conosur), as well as to Krukoff (1982) and Pérez Cueto (1995) – see references.
Names in synonymy

Abuta acutifolia – A. amara – A. boliviana – A. brunnescens – A. candicans – A. concolor – A. duckei – A. ecuadorensis – A. froesii – A. guyanensis – A. heterophylla – A. klugii – A. limaciifolia – A. macrocarpa – A. macrophylla – A. manausensis – A. melinoniana – A. negroensis – A. oblonga – A. oblongifolia – A. parvifolia – A. platiphylla – A. pullei – A. scandens – A. soukupii – A. splendida – A. tomentosa – A. toxifera – A. trinervis – A. umbellata – A. verruculosa – A. wilson-brownei – Anelasma concolor – A. gardnerianum – A. guianense – A. intaminatum – A. jamaicense – A. laurifolium – A. martinianum – A. minutiflorum – A. pallidum – A. sellowianum – A. spruceanum – A. strumosum – A. urophyllum – Batschia conferta – B. racemosa – B. spicata – Trichoa concolor – T. conferta – T. guyanensis – T. racemosa – T. spicata
Unresolved names

Abuta spicata
Source(s) of checklist:
List of unresolved names based on all names from IPNI that are not confirmed either as correct names of accepted species or as synonyms.
References
Primary references

Fusée Aublet, J.B.C. 1775. Histoire des plantes de la Guiane françoise, rangées suivant la méthode sexuelle, avec plusieurs mémoires sur différens objets intéressans, relatifs à la culture & au commerce de la Guiane françoise, & une notice des plantes de l' Isle-de-France. Tome 1. Pp. I–XXIX, 30–32, 1–621. Pierre-François Didot jeune, Londres [London], Paris. BHL. Reference page.
Fusée Aublet, J.B.C. 1775. Histoire des plantes de la Guiane françoise, rangées suivant la méthode sexuelle, avec plusieurs mémoires sur différens objets intéressans, relatifs à la culture & au commerce de la Guiane françoise, & une notice des plantes de l' Isle-de-France. Tome 4. Tt. 194–392. Pierre-François Didot jeune, Londres [London], Paris. BHL. Reference page.
Persoon, C.H. 1806–1807. Synopsis plantarum, seu enchiridium botanicum, complectens enumerationem systematicam specierum hucusque cognitarum. Pars secunda. 657 pp. Apud Bibliopolas Treuttel et Würtz, Parisiis Lutetiorum [Paris]; Apud J. G. Cottam, Tubingae [Tübingen]. BHL Biblioteca Digital Reference page.

Additional references

Barneby, R.C. 2001. Menispermaceae. Pp. 554–578 in Steyermark, J.A., Berry, P.E., Yatskievych, K. & Holst, B.K. (eds.), Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana, Vol. 6, Liliaceae–Myrsinaceae. Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St. Louis. ISBN 0-915279-81-9. Reference page.
Barneby, R.C. (†) & Hiepko, P. 2007. Menispermaceae. In Funk, V., Hollowell, T., Berry, P., Kelloff, C. & Alexander, S.N., Checklist of the plants of the Guiana Shield (Venezuela: Amazonas, Bolivar, Delta Amacuro; Guyana, Surinam, French Guiana). Contributions from the United States National Herbarium 55: 420–422. BHL Reference page.
Jiménez, Q. 2007. Menispermaceae. Pp. 615–627 in Hammel, B.E., Grayum, M.H., Herrera, C. & Zamora, N. (eds.), Manual de plantas de Costa Rica, Vol. VI, Dicotiledóneas (Haloragaceae–Phytolaccaceae). Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St. Louis. ISBN 978-1-930723-60-3. Reference page.
Krukoff, B.A. 1982. Supplementary notes on American Menispermaceae. XVII. Neotropical Triclisieae and Anomospermeae. Phytologia 50: 80–111. BHL Reference page.
Ortiz, R. 2001. Menispermaceae DC. Pp. 1432–1442 in Stevens, W.D., Ulloa Ulloa, C., Pool, A. & Montiel, O.M. (eds.), Flora de Nicaragua, Vol. 2, Angiospermas (Fabaceae–Oxalidaceae). (Monographs in Systematic Botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 85). Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St. Louis. Online Reference page.
Pérez Cueto, E. 1995. Menispermaceae. In Flora de Veracruz, Fasc. 87. 43 pp. Instituto de Ecología, A.C. Xalapa, Veracruz; University of California, Riverside, CA, USA. ISBN 968-7213-72-8. PDF Reference page.
Standley, P.C. & Steyermark, J.A. 1946. Menispermaceae. In Flora of Guatemala – Part IV. Fieldiana: Botany 24(4): 258–266. BHL Reference page.

Links

International Plant Names Index. 2019. Abuta. Published online. Accessed: 11 March 2019.
Farr, E.R. & Zijlstra, G. (eds.) 1996 onwards. Abuta in Index Nominum Genericorum (Plantarum). Accessed: 2019 March 11.
Farr, E.R. & Zijlstra, G. (eds.) 1996 onwards. Anelasma in Index Nominum Genericorum (Plantarum). Accessed: 2019 March 11.
Farr, E.R. & Zijlstra, G. (eds.) 1996 onwards. Batschia in Index Nominum Genericorum (Plantarum). Accessed: 2019 March 11.
Farr, E.R. & Zijlstra, G. (eds.) 1996 onwards. Trichoa in Index Nominum Genericorum (Plantarum). Accessed: 2019 March 11.
Global Biodiversity Information Facility. 2019. GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset. Taxon: Abuta.
USDA, ARS, Germplasm Resources Information Network. Abuta in the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN), U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service. Accessed: 2019-03-11.
Hassler, M. 2019. Abuta. 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 11. Reference page.

Tropicos.org 2019. Abuta. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 11 March 2019.
Tropicos.org: Flora Mesoamericana: Abuta. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 11 March 2019.
Abuta in Bernal, R., Gradstein, S.R. & Celis, M. (eds.). 2015. Catálogo de plantas y líquenes de Colombia. Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá. Accessed: 11 March 2019.
Tropicos.org: Catalogue of the Vascular Plants of the Department of Antioquia (Colombia): Abuta. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 11 March 2019.
Tropicos.org: Catalogue of the Vascular Plants of Ecuador: Abuta. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 11 March 2019.
Tropicos.org: Peru Checklist: Abuta. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 11 March 2019.
Tropicos.org: Bolivia Catalogue: Abuta. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 11 March 2019.
Abuta in Flora do Brasil 2020 em construção. Jardim Botânico do Rio de Janeiro. Accessed: 11 March 2019.
Abuta in Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Conosur. Instituto de Botánica Darwinion. Accessed: 11 March 2019.

Classification System: APG IV

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

Familia: Menispermaceae
Subfamilia: Menispermoideae
Tribus: Anomospermeae
Genus: Abuta
Name

Abuta Barrère ex Aubl., Hist. Pl. Guiane 1: 618. 1775. – Hist. Pl. Guiane 4: t. 250. 1775.
Synonymy

Heterotypic
Batschia Mutis ex Thunb., Nova Acta Regiae Soc. Sci. Upsal., ser. 2, 5: 120, t. 2. 1792, nom. illeg. hom. – non Batschia J.F.Gmel., Syst. Nat., ed. 13[bis], 2(1): 315. 1791.
Trichoa Pers., Syn. Pl. [Persoon] 2(2): 634. 1807.
Type species: as for Batschia Mutis ex Thunb.
Anelasma Miers, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 2, 7(37): 37, 42(–43). 1851.
Type species: Anelasma gardnerianum Miers, Contr. Bot. 3: 93. 1871.

Overview of species
Accepted species

A. antioquiana – A. aristeguietae – A. barbata – A. brevifolia – A. bullata – A. candollei – A. chiapasensis – A. chocoensis – A. colombiana – A. convexa – A. dwyeriana – A. fluminum – A. grandifolia – A. grisebachii – A. imene – A. longa – A. mycetandra – A. obovata – A. pahnii – A. panamensis – A. panurensis – A. racemosa – A. rufescens – A. sandwithiana – A. seemannii – A. selloana – A. solimoesensis – A. steyermarkii – A. vaupesensis – A. velutina
Source(s) of checklist:
List based on accepted species according to checklists from Mesoamerica, Antioquia (Colombia), Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, the Guiana Shield, Brazil, and southern South America (Conosur), as well as to Krukoff (1982) and Pérez Cueto (1995) – see references.
Names in synonymy

Abuta acutifolia – A. amara – A. boliviana – A. brunnescens – A. candicans – A. concolor – A. duckei – A. ecuadorensis – A. froesii – A. guyanensis – A. heterophylla – A. klugii – A. limaciifolia – A. macrocarpa – A. macrophylla – A. manausensis – A. melinoniana – A. negroensis – A. oblonga – A. oblongifolia – A. parvifolia – A. platiphylla – A. pullei – A. scandens – A. soukupii – A. splendida – A. tomentosa – A. toxifera – A. trinervis – A. umbellata – A. verruculosa – A. wilson-brownei – Anelasma concolor – A. gardnerianum – A. guianense – A. intaminatum – A. jamaicense – A. laurifolium – A. martinianum – A. minutiflorum – A. pallidum – A. sellowianum – A. spruceanum – A. strumosum – A. urophyllum – Batschia conferta – B. racemosa – B. spicata – Trichoa concolor – T. conferta – T. guyanensis – T. racemosa – T. spicata
Unresolved names

Abuta spicata
Source(s) of checklist:
List of unresolved names based on all names from IPNI that are not confirmed either as correct names of accepted species or as synonyms.
References
Primary references

Fusée Aublet, J.B.C. 1775. Histoire des plantes de la Guiane françoise, rangées suivant la méthode sexuelle, avec plusieurs mémoires sur différens objets intéressans, relatifs à la culture & au commerce de la Guiane françoise, & une notice des plantes de l' Isle-de-France. Tome 1. Pp. I–XXIX, 30–32, 1–621. Pierre-François Didot jeune, Londres [London], Paris. BHL. Reference page.
Fusée Aublet, J.B.C. 1775. Histoire des plantes de la Guiane françoise, rangées suivant la méthode sexuelle, avec plusieurs mémoires sur différens objets intéressans, relatifs à la culture & au commerce de la Guiane françoise, & une notice des plantes de l' Isle-de-France. Tome 4. Tt. 194–392. Pierre-François Didot jeune, Londres [London], Paris. BHL. Reference page.
Persoon, C.H. 1806–1807. Synopsis plantarum, seu enchiridium botanicum, complectens enumerationem systematicam specierum hucusque cognitarum. Pars secunda. 657 pp. Apud Bibliopolas Treuttel et Würtz, Parisiis Lutetiorum [Paris]; Apud J. G. Cottam, Tubingae [Tübingen]. BHL Biblioteca Digital Reference page.

Additional references

Barneby, R.C. 2001. Menispermaceae. Pp. 554–578 in Steyermark, J.A., Berry, P.E., Yatskievych, K. & Holst, B.K. (eds.), Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana, Vol. 6, Liliaceae–Myrsinaceae. Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St. Louis. ISBN 0-915279-81-9. Reference page.
Barneby, R.C. (†) & Hiepko, P. 2007. Menispermaceae. In Funk, V., Hollowell, T., Berry, P., Kelloff, C. & Alexander, S.N., Checklist of the plants of the Guiana Shield (Venezuela: Amazonas, Bolivar, Delta Amacuro; Guyana, Surinam, French Guiana). Contributions from the United States National Herbarium 55: 420–422. BHL Reference page.
Jiménez, Q. 2007. Menispermaceae. Pp. 615–627 in Hammel, B.E., Grayum, M.H., Herrera, C. & Zamora, N. (eds.), Manual de plantas de Costa Rica, Vol. VI, Dicotiledóneas (Haloragaceae–Phytolaccaceae). Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St. Louis. ISBN 978-1-930723-60-3. Reference page.
Krukoff, B.A. 1982. Supplementary notes on American Menispermaceae. XVII. Neotropical Triclisieae and Anomospermeae. Phytologia 50: 80–111. BHL Reference page.
Ortiz, R. 2001. Menispermaceae DC. Pp. 1432–1442 in Stevens, W.D., Ulloa Ulloa, C., Pool, A. & Montiel, O.M. (eds.), Flora de Nicaragua, Vol. 2, Angiospermas (Fabaceae–Oxalidaceae). (Monographs in Systematic Botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 85). Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St. Louis. Online Reference page.
Pérez Cueto, E. 1995. Menispermaceae. In Flora de Veracruz, Fasc. 87. 43 pp. Instituto de Ecología, A.C. Xalapa, Veracruz; University of California, Riverside, CA, USA. ISBN 968-7213-72-8. PDF Reference page.
Standley, P.C. & Steyermark, J.A. 1946. Menispermaceae. In Flora of Guatemala – Part IV. Fieldiana: Botany 24(4): 258–266. BHL Reference page.

Links

International Plant Names Index. 2019. Abuta. Published online. Accessed: 11 March 2019.
Farr, E.R. & Zijlstra, G. (eds.) 1996 onwards. Abuta in Index Nominum Genericorum (Plantarum). Accessed: 2019 March 11.
Farr, E.R. & Zijlstra, G. (eds.) 1996 onwards. Anelasma in Index Nominum Genericorum (Plantarum). Accessed: 2019 March 11.
Farr, E.R. & Zijlstra, G. (eds.) 1996 onwards. Batschia in Index Nominum Genericorum (Plantarum). Accessed: 2019 March 11.
Farr, E.R. & Zijlstra, G. (eds.) 1996 onwards. Trichoa in Index Nominum Genericorum (Plantarum). Accessed: 2019 March 11.
Global Biodiversity Information Facility. 2019. GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset. Taxon: Abuta.
USDA, ARS, Germplasm Resources Information Network. Abuta in the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN), U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service. Accessed: 2019-03-11.
Hassler, M. 2019. Abuta. 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 11. Reference page.

Tropicos.org 2019. Abuta. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 11 March 2019.
Tropicos.org: Flora Mesoamericana: Abuta. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 11 March 2019.
Abuta in Bernal, R., Gradstein, S.R. & Celis, M. (eds.). 2015. Catálogo de plantas y líquenes de Colombia. Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá. Accessed: 11 March 2019.
Tropicos.org: Catalogue of the Vascular Plants of the Department of Antioquia (Colombia): Abuta. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 11 March 2019.
Tropicos.org: Catalogue of the Vascular Plants of Ecuador: Abuta. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 11 March 2019.
Tropicos.org: Peru Checklist: Abuta. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 11 March 2019.
Tropicos.org: Bolivia Catalogue: Abuta. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 11 March 2019.
Abuta in Flora do Brasil 2020 em construção. Jardim Botânico do Rio de Janeiro. Accessed: 11 March 2019.
Abuta in Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Conosur. Instituto de Botánica Darwinion. Accessed: 11 March 2019.

Abuta is a genus in the flowering plant family Menispermaceae, of about 32 species, native to tropical Central and South America.

Description

It consists in dioecious climbers or rarely erect trees or shrubs (Abuta concolor) with simple leaves. Flowers in composed panicles. Male flowers: sepals 6, in 2 whorls, petals absent, stamens 6, connate or free, introrse, anthers with a longitudinal or transverse dehiscence. Female flowers: sepals and petals as in male, staminodes 6, carpels 3, drupes ovoid, endocarp woody, condyle septiform, endosperm ruminate, embryo curved, cotyledons appressed. It is in the tropical rain forest.
Taxonomy

Abuta is usually classified in the tribe Anomospermeae Miers, together with Anomospermum Miers.
Synonymy

The genera Anelasma Miers and Batschia Thunb. have been brought into synonymy with Abuta.
Uses

Abuta is one of the components of the arrow poison curare of some indigenous tribes of South America (especially Abuta imene from Colombia). Roots of Abuta rufescens are used as medicinal in diseases of the urogenital tract, but it is dangerous.[1]

The dichloromethane extracts of Abuta grandifolia and Minthostachys setosa (Labiatae) demonstrated high larvicidal activity against Aedes aegypti, the most active being the dichloromethane extract of A. grandifolia.[2]
Selected species

Abuta acutifolia Miers
Abuta amara Aubl.
Abuta antioquiana Krukoff & Barneby
Abuta aristeguietae Krukoff & Barneby
Abuta barbata Miers
Abuta boliviana Rusby
Abuta brevifolia Krukoff & Moldenke
Abuta brunnescens Krukoff & Barneby
Abuta bullata Moldenke
Abuta candicans Rich. ex DC.
Abuta candollei Triana & Planch.
Abuta chiapasensis Krukoff & Barneby
Abuta chocoensis Krukoff & Barneby
Abuta colombiana Moldenke
Abuta concolor Poepp. & Endl.
Abuta convexa Diels
Abuta duckei Diels
Abuta dwyerana Krukoff & Barneby
Abuta ecuadoriensis Moldenke
Abuta fluminum Krukoff & Barneby
Abuta froesii Krukoff & Moldenke
Abuta grandifolia (Mart.) Sandwith
Abuta grisebachii Triana & Planch.
Abuta guianensis Eichler
Abuta heterophylla Miers
Abuta imene Eichler
Abuta klugii Moldenke ex Macbride
Abuta limaciifolia Diels
Abuta longa Krukoff & Barneby
Abuta macrocarpa Moldenke
Abuta macrophylla Miers
Abuta manausensis Krukoff & Barneby
Abuta mycetandra Krukoff & Barneby
Abuta negroensis Krukoff & Moldenke
Abuta oblonga Miers
Abuta oblongifolia Miers
Abuta obovata Diels
Abuta pahni Krukoff & Barneby
Abuta panamensis (Standl.) Krukoff & Barneby
Abuta panurensis Eichler
Abuta parvifolia Rusby ex Moldenke
Abuta platyphylla Mart. ex Eichler
Abuta pullei Diels
Abuta racemosa Triana & Planch.
Abuta rufescens Aubl. *
Abuta sadwithiana Krukoff & Barneby
Abuta scandens DC.
Abuta seemanni Triana & Planch.
Abuta selloana Eichler
Abuta solimoesensis Krukoff & Barneby
Abuta soukupi Moldenke
Abuta spicata Triana & Planch.
Abuta splendida Krukoff & Moldenke
Abuta steyermarkii (Standl.) Standl.
Abuta tomentosa Sagot ex Benth.
Abuta toxifera Baill. ex Krukoff & Moldenke
Abuta trinervis (Rusby) Moldenke
Abuta umbellata Sagot ex Benth.
Abuta vaupesensis Krukoff & Barneby
Abuta velutina Gleason
Abuta verruculosa Krukoff & Barneby
Abuta wilson-brownei R.S.Cowan

See also

List of Abuta species

References

Mabberley, D. J. (1997). The Plant-Book (2nd ed.). Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-41421-0. LCCN 96030091.

Ciccia, G.; Coussio, J.; Mongelli, E. (2000). "Insecticidal activity against Aedes aegypti larvae of some medicinal South American plants". Journal of Ethnopharmacology. 72 (1): 185–189. doi:10.1016/S0378-8741(00)00241-5. PMID 10967471.

Further reading
Diels, L. (1910). "Menispermaceae". In Engler, A. (ed.). Das Pflanzenreich (in Latin and German). Vol. IV.94 (Fasc. 46). Leipzig (Germany): Engelmann. [monographic revision of the genus]
Barneby, R. C.; Krukoff, B. A. (1971). "Supplementary Notes on American Menispermaceae VIII. A Generic Survey of the American Triclisieae and Anomospermeae". Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden. 22 (2): 30–52. ISBN 978-0-89327-075-9. [taxonomic partial revision]
Kessler, P. J. A. (1993). Kubitzki, K. (ed.). Flowering plants, dicotyledons : magnoliid, hamamelid, and caryophyllid families. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants. Vol. 2. Berlin: Springer-Verlag. ISBN 3-540-55509-9. LCCN 93019190.