Vitis
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Authority
Acevedo-Rodríguez, Pedro. 2005. Vines and climbing plants of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Contr. U. S. Natl. Herb. 51: 1-483.
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Family
Vitaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Description - Lianas or woody vines, that climb by means of tendrils that are opposite the leaves. The stems woody, without anatomical anomalies, producing abundant water when cut. Leaves simple, usually palmately lobed, alternate, with serrate margins; petioles more or less elongate; stipules deciduous. Flowers 5-merous, actinomorphic, bisexual or unisexual, produced in panicles, opposite the leaves: calyx cupuliform, with 5 minute lobes; corolla of 5 petals, concrescent at the apex, that separate as a unit in anthesis; stamens alternate with the petals; disc cupuliform, 5-lobate; ovary superior, bilocular, the style short, conical. Fruit a fleshy berry, ellipsoid or globose. A genus of approximately 60 species, the majority of the Northern Hemisphere. The grape belongs to this genus.