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Vincetoxicum Baill.

Genus composed of 256 species distributed throughout the warm and temperate regions of the Old World and the Western Pacific (including New Guinea, Australia, but not New Zealand); Introduced to parts of North America. The only woody representation of this genus in N Africa is the shrub V. schimperi, which occurs from Ethiopia to Egypt.

Updated by: J.F. Mota & F.J. Pérez García.