Ampelozizyphus
{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}}
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|parent_authority = J.E.Richardson
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|authority = Ducke
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Ampelozizyphus is a genus of plants in the family Rhamnaceae. It includes two species Ampelozizyphus amazonicus, which is known from Amazonian Peru, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, and Brazil, and Ampelozizyphus guaquirensis, native to the central portion of the Coastal Cordillera of Venezuela.
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- {{cite journal |first1=Lúcio Ricardo Leite |last1=Diniz |first2=Paula Carvalho |last2=Santana |first3=Ana Paula Araújo Ferreira |last3=Ribeiro |first4=Viviane Gomes |last4=Portella |first5=Lílian Fernanda |last5=Pacheco |first6=Nádia Burkowski |last6=Meyer |first7=Isabela Costa |last7=César |first8=Gustavo Pereira |last8=Cosenza |first9=Maria das Graças Lins |last9=Brandão |display-authors=8|title=Effect of triterpene saponins from roots of Ampelozizyphus amazonicus Ducke on diuresis in rats |journal=Journal of Ethnopharmacology |volume=123 |issue=2 |pages=275–9 |date=June 2009 |pmid=19429372 |doi=10.1016/j.jep.2009.03.006}}
- {{cite journal |first1=Ana Claudia F. |last1=Amaral |first2=José Luiz P. |last2=Ferreira |first3=Dominique F. |last3=de Moura |first4=Junior R. |last4=Carvalho |first5=Débora T. |last5=Ohana |first6=Aurea |last6=Echevarria |first7=Virgilio E. |last7=do Rosário |first8=Dinora |last8=Lopes |first9=Jefferson Rocha |last9=de A. Silva |journal=Pharmacognosy Reviews|title=Updated studies on Ampelozizyphus amazonicus, a medicinal plant used in the Amazonian Region |volume=2 |issue=4 |year=2008 |pages=308–16 }}
- {{cite journal |first1=Paul E. Berry |last1=Winfried Meier |title=Ampelozizyphus guaquirensis (Rhamnaceae), a new tree species endemic to the Venezuelan Coastal Cordillera |journal=Brittonia |volume=2 |issue=60 |year=2008 |pages=131–135 |doi=10.1007/s12228-008-9011-6|bibcode=2008Britt..60..131M }}
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Category:Taxa named by Adolpho Ducke
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