Smilax china

Smilax china
	Fruits
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Monocots
Order:	Liliales
Family:	Smilacaceae
Genus:	Smilax
Species:	S. china
Binomial name
	Smilax china; L.
Synonyms*
	Coprosmanthus japonicus Kunth; Smilax japonica (Kunth) A.Gray; Smilax pteropus Miq.; Smilax thomsoniana A.DC.; Smilax taquetii H.Lév.; Smilax taiheiensis Hayata; Smilax boninensis Nakai;

Smilax china is a climbing plant species in the genus Smilax. It is native to China, Korea, Taiwan, Japan (including Ryukyu and Bonin Islands), Philippines, Vietnam, Thailand, Myanmar, and India.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]^[6]^[7]^[8] It is also known as china root, china-root, or chinaroot,^[9] as is the related Smilax glabra.

^ ^a ^b Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
^ Chen Xinqi (陈心启 Chen Sing-chi); Tetsuo Koyama. "Smilax china Linnaeus, Sp. Pl. 2: 1029. 1753 菝葜 ba qia". Flora of China. Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, MO & Harvard University Herbaria, Cambridge, MA. Retrieved 17 May 2015.
^ Merrill, E.D. (1922). An enumeration of Philippine flowering plants 1(2): 129-240. Bureau of Science, Manila.
^ Smitinand, T. & Larsen, K. (eds.) (1975). Flora of Thailand 2: 1-484. The Forest Herbarium, National Park, Wildlife and Plant Conservation Department, Bangkok.
^ Leroy, J.-F. (ed.) (1983). Flore du Cambodge du Laos et du Viêt-Nam 20: 1-175. Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris.
^ Ohwi, J. (1984). Flora of Japan (in English): 1-1067. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
^ Kress, W.J., DeFilipps, R.A., Farr, E. & Kyi, D.Y.Y. (2003). A Checklist of the Trees, Shrubs, Herbs and Climbers of Myanmar. Contributions from the United States National Herbarium 45: 1-590.
^ Baruah, S., Borthakur, S.K., Gogoi, P. & Ahmed, M. (2011). New distributional record of Smilax china Linnaeus (Smilacaceae) in India. Pleione 5: 328-330.
^ NRCS. "Smilax china". PLANTS Database. United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). Retrieved 16 November 2015.