Sinomenium is a genus of plant in family Menispermaceae first described as a genus in 1910.Diels, Friedrich Ludwig Emil. 1910. Das Pflanzenreich IV. 94(Heft 46): 254, 204 It contains only one known species, Sinomenium acutum, native to China, northern India, Nepal, Japan, northern Thailand,Flora of China Vol. 7 Page 15 风龙 feng long Sinomenium acutum (Thunberg) Rehder & E. H. Wilson in Sargent, Pl. Wilson. 1: 387. 1913. and also Korea.
Fossil record Sinomenium macrofossils have been recovered from the late Zanclean stage of Pliocene sites in Pocapaglia, Italy.Messian to Zanclean vegetation and climate of Northern and Central Italy by Adele Bertini & Edoardo Martinetto, Bollettino della Società Paleontologica Italiana, 47 (2), 2008, 105-121. Modena, 11 lugio 2008. Macrofossils of Sinomenium cantalense have been recovered from the Zanclean stage of the Pliocene epoch in Western Georgia in the Caucasus region.The History of the Flora and Vegetation of Georgia by Irina Shatilova, Nino Mchedlishvili, Luara Rukhadze, Eliso Kvavadze, Georgian National Museum Institute of Paleobiology, Tbilisi 2011,
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