Parabaena

Parabaena is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Menispermaceae.

Its native range is Tropical and Subtropical Asia.

Fossil record
Pliocene seed and fruit fossils of †Parabaena rhenana are described from sand-filled river-channels in the brown coal pit of Fortuna-Garsdorf near Bergheim, North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany.

Species
Species:


 * Parabaena denudata Diels
 * Parabaena echinocarpa Diels
 * Parabaena elmeri Diels
 * Parabaena megalocarpa Merr.
 * Parabaena sagittata Miers ex Hook.f. & Thomson
 * Parabaena tuberculata Becc.