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Kadsura

genus of plants

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 24, 2026
Entity authorityQ146434 ↗
Source-derived summary

Kadsura is a genus of flowering plants in the Schisandraceae. All species are native to southern and eastern Asia.

Kadsura are woody vines with simple leaves, and aggregate fruits. The genus includes seventeen species. It was described in 1810, and has historically been confused with Schisandra. Numerous fossil taxa are known, the earlist of which is from the Eocene.

Kadsura are widely used, including for traditional medicine. They are used to treat a variety of ailments, including malaria and kidney disease.

Distribution

Kadsura is native to eastern, southern, and south-eastern Asia. They grow in subtropical, mixed, and montane forests.

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“Kadsura” enters the record as genus of plants. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Kadsura, genus and plants can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewUseful for establishing the present vocabulary of the subject while preserving a route back to the evidence on which that vocabulary rests. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1810—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Kadsura, genus and plants.
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“Kadsura” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Kadsura, genus and plants provides the most credible route into that argument.

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The date and method of observation matter as much as the stated conclusion, especially where classification or consensus has changed. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 24, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q146434. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1810.

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This entry incorporates text from “Kadsura” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.