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{{Taxobox
| color = lightgreen
| name = ''Anredera''
| image = Anredera_Cordifolia.jpg
| image_width = 230px
| image_caption = ''[[Anredera cordifolia]]''
| regnum = [[Plant]]ae
| divisio = [[Flowering plant|Magnoliophyta]]
| classis = [[Magnoliopsida]]
| ordo = [[Caryophyllales]]
| familia = [[Basellaceae]]
| genus = ''Anredera''
| genus_authority = [[Antoine Laurent de Jussieu|Juss.]]
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision = See text
}}
'''''Anredera''''' is a genus of five to ten species of plants native to the [[neotropics]], most of them [[evergreen]] [[vine]]s of dry [[scrubland]] and thickets.
Species include:
* ''[[Anredera baselloides]]'' (Kunth) Baill.
* ''[[Anredera cordifolia]]'' (Ten.) Steenis
* ''[[Anredera spicata]]'' J. F. Gmelin
* ''[[Anredera vesicaria]]'' (Lam.) Gaertn f.
At least one species, ''A. cordifolia'' bears edible [[root]]s or [[tuber]]s and [[leaf|leaves]] similar to those of ''[[Basella alba]]''.
== External links ==
* [http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&taxon_id=101968 Anredera in the ''Flora of North America'']
* [http://www.hear.org/starr/hiplants/reports/html/anredera_cordifolia.htm Plants of Hawai'i] on ''Anredera cordifolia'' as an ornamental and invasive plant with accompanying [http://www.hear.org/starr/hiplants/images/thumbnails/html/anredera_cordifolia.htm photographs]
* [http://www.ibiblio.org/pfaf/cgi-bin/arr_html?Anredera+cordifolia Plants For A Future database on ''Anredera cordifolia'' as food]
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[[Category:Caryophyllales]]
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[[pt:Anredera]]