| Common Names - Greenbrier family | Synonyms - |
| Authority - Vent. | Total Number of genera - 3 |
| Gymnosperm or Angiosperm? - Angiosperm | Total Number of species - 370 |
| Plant forms - Shrubs, Herbs, Liane | |
| World Distribution - Tropical & warm areas, esp. Southern Holarctic, Paleotropical, Neotropical, Cape, and Australian. Temperate (warm), or sub-tropical to tropical. Widespread, tropical, subtropical and warm temperate | |
| Comments - Lianes or branching shrubs | |
| 1 - Smilax. |