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|accepted_name=Smilax tamnoides
|accepted_authority=Linnaeus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sp. Pl.
|place=2: 1030. 1753
|year=1753
}}
|common_names=China root;hellfetter;bristly greenbrier
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Illustrated
}}{{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Smilax grandifolia
|authority=Buckley
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Smilax hispida
|authority=Muhlenberg ex Torrey
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Smilax hispida var. australis
|authority=Small
|rank=variety
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Smilax hispida var. montana
|authority=Coker
|rank=variety
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Smilax tamnoides var. hispida
|authority=(Muhlenberg ex Torrey) Fernald
|rank=variety
}}
|hierarchy=Smilacaceae;Smilax;Smilax tamnoides
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Smilacaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Smilax]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Smilax tamnoides]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 26
|mention_page=page 470, 472, 478
|treatment_page=page 477
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--><span class="statement" id="st-d0_s0" data-properties="whole_organism growth form">Vines;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s1" data-properties="rhizome shape;rhizome height or length or size">rhizomes knotty, short.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s2" data-properties="stem duration;stem growth form;stem architecture;stem shape;stem length;stem width;stem texture;stem pubescence;prickle presence"><b>Stems </b>perennial, climbing, branching, terete, to 7+ m × 9 mm, woody, glabrous, with prickles proximally, prickles usually absent distally;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s3" data-properties="prickle coloration;prickle size;prickle some measurement;prickle pubescence;prickle fragility">prickles blackish, unequal, 3–10+ mm, bristly, flexible.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s4" data-properties="leaf duration;leaf duration;part geographical terms"><b>Leaves </b>± persistent in southern part of range, deciduous in north;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s5" data-properties="petiole some measurement">petiole 1–2 cm;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s6" data-properties="blade coloration;blade condition;blade coloration;blade shape;blade shape;blade shape;blade architecture or coloration or relief;blade width;blade length;blade width;blade pubescence;blade pubescence;base shape;margin architecture or shape;margin architecture or shape;margin width;margin prominence or shape;margin coloration;margin shape;apex shape">blade green, drying to light olive-gray, ovatelanceolate, ovate, or sometimes pandurate, prominently reticulate, thin, 5–13 × 3–10 cm, not glaucous, glabrous (to prickly on major veins abaxially), base rounded to cordate, margins entire apically, minutely serrulate basally, thin, flat, not banded, not lobed, apex pointed.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s7" data-properties="umbel quantity;umbel position;umbel architecture;umbel architecture;umbel density;umbel shape"><b>Umbels </b>many, axillary to leaves, to 25-flowered, open to dense, spherical;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s8" data-properties="peduncle orientation;peduncle some measurement">peduncle often drooping, 1.5–6.5 cm.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s9" data-properties="perianth coloration"><b>Flowers:</b> perianth green to bronze;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s10" data-properties="tepal some measurement">tepals 4–5 mm;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s11" data-properties="anther variability;anther height or length or size">anthers ± equaling to shorter than filaments;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s12" data-properties="ovule quantity">ovule 1 per locule;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s13" data-properties="pedicel some measurement">pedicel 0.4–1.2 cm.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s14" data-properties="berry coloration;berry shape;berry some measurement;berry pubescence"><b>Berries </b>black, globose, 6–10 mm, not glaucous.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering May–Jun.
|habitat=Wet to dry woods, thickets, bottomlands
|elevation=0–400 m
|distribution=Ont.;Ala.;Ark.;Conn.;Del.;D.C.;Fla.;Ga.;Ill.;Ind.;Iowa;Kans.;Ky.;La.;Md.;Mass.;Mich.;Minn.;Miss.;Mo.;Nebr.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;Ohio;Okla.;Pa.;S.C.;S.Dak.;Tenn.;Tex.;Vt.;Va.;W.Va.;Wis.
|discussion=<p>Smilax tamnoides is marked by its dark, flexible, and unequal bristles and leaves with minutely serrulate margins basally. The far-western S. californica appears to be closely related but lacks the serrulate margins of the leaf bases.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Smilax tamnoides
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Smilax grandifolia;Smilax hispida;Smilax hispida var. australis;Smilax hispida var. montana;Smilax tamnoides var. hispida
|basionyms=
|family=Smilacaceae
|phenology=Flowering May–Jun.
|habitat=Wet to dry woods, thickets, bottomlands
|elevation=0–400 m
|distribution=Ont.;Ala.;Ark.;Conn.;Del.;D.C.;Fla.;Ga.;Ill.;Ind.;Iowa;Kans.;Ky.;La.;Md.;Mass.;Mich.;Minn.;Miss.;Mo.;Nebr.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;Ohio;Okla.;Pa.;S.C.;S.Dak.;Tenn.;Tex.;Vt.;Va.;W.Va.;Wis.
|reference=None
|publication title=Sp. Pl.
|publication year=1753
|special status=Illustrated;Endemic
|source xml=https://bibilujan@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-fine-grained-xml.git/src/84153f6d59a0a91d69695978a64cee7560374f8e/V26/V26_998.xml
|genus=Smilax
|species=Smilax tamnoides
|anther height or length or size=more or less equaling to shorter
|anther variability=equaling
|apex shape=pointed
|base shape=rounded;cordate
|berry coloration=black
|berry pubescence=not glaucous
|berry shape=globose
|berry some measurement=6mm;10mm
|blade architecture or coloration or relief=reticulate
|blade coloration=light olive-gray;green
|blade condition=drying
|blade length=5cm;13cm
|blade pubescence=glabrous;not glaucous
|blade shape=pandurate;ovate;ovatelanceolate
|blade width=3cm;10cm
|leaf duration=deciduous;persistent
|margin architecture or shape=serrulate;entire
|margin coloration=not banded
|margin prominence or shape=flat
|margin shape=not lobed
|margin width=thin
|ovule quantity=1
|part geographical terms=southern
|pedicel some measurement=0.4cm;1.2cm
|peduncle orientation=drooping
|peduncle some measurement=1.5cm;6.5cm
|perianth coloration=green;bronze
|petiole some measurement=1cm;2cm
|prickle coloration=blackish
|prickle fragility=pliable
|prickle presence=absent
|prickle pubescence=bristly
|prickle size=unequal
|prickle some measurement=3mm;10mm
|rhizome height or length or size=short
|rhizome shape=knotty
|stem architecture=branching
|stem duration=perennial
|stem growth form=climbing
|stem length=0m;7m
|stem pubescence=glabrous
|stem shape=terete
|stem texture=woody
|stem width=9
|tepal some measurement=4mm;5mm
|umbel architecture=open;25-flowered
|umbel density=dense
|umbel position=axillary
|umbel quantity=many
|umbel shape=spherical
|whole_organism growth form=vine
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