A Smilacaceae occurs as plant family formerly included in the Liliaceae (lily personal) but nowadays regarded as a distinct segregate family, allied to the Dioscoreaceae (yam family). A personal occurs throughout a tropical & warmly moderate regions of the globe.

Members of this personal occasionally use woody roots & the climbing or even vining form. A bit of own woody vining stems, typically by owning thorns, when others come herbaceous above ground and spineless. A bit of come known for their malodourous flowers.

A genus Nemexia includes the herbaceous plants indigene to Northerly Usa that were once involved within Smilax. Smilax, a nature and severity genus, includes simply plants that have a woody, vining form using thorns.

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