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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
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|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-undefined" data-properties="">Vines; rhizomes knotty, short. <b>Stems</b> perennial, climbing, branching, terete, to 7+ m × 9 mm, woody, glabrous, with prickles proximally, prickles usually absent distally; prickles blackish, unequal, 3–10+ mm, bristly, flexible. <b>Leaves</b> ± persistent in southern part of range, deciduous in north; petiole 1–2 cm; blade green, drying to light olive-gray, ovate-lanceolate, 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. <b>Umbels</b> many, axillary to leaves, to 25-flowered, open to dense, spherical; peduncle often drooping, 1.5–6.5 cm. <b>Flowers</b>: perianth green to bronze; tepals 4–5 mm; anthers ± equaling to shorter than filaments; ovule 1 per locule; pedicel 0.4–1.2 cm. <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><i>Smilax tamnoides</i> is marked by its dark, flexible, and unequal bristles and leaves with minutely serrulate margins basally. The far-western <i>S. californica</i> 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://bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation/src/2e0870ddd59836b60bcf96646a41e87ea5a5943a/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V26/V26_998.xml
|genus=Smilax
|species=Smilax tamnoides
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