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Dioclea megacarpa Rolfe

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HIGHER TAXON: Phaseoleae

GENUS: Dioclea Kunth

Dioclea megacarpa Rolfe [Preferred name]
    Dioclea reflexa var. grandiflora Benth. {Synonym}

  
VERNACULAR NAME:
  Ojo De Buey [1243]; Ojo De Mono [1645]

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION:
  Caribbean
Caribbean-TRP (U) [1063, 1231, 1442, 1645]
  Central America
Belize (N) [1645]; Costa Rica (N) [1367]; El Salvador (N) [1645, 2156]; Guatemala (N) [1645]; Honduras (N) [1645]; Nicaragua (N) [3348]; Panama (N) [1224, 1243, 1467]
  South America
Bolivia (N) [1063]; Brazil (N) [1063, 1103, 1231, 1442]; Colombia (N) [1063, 1442]; French Guiana (N) [2285]; Paraguay (N) [1063, 1442]; Peru (N) [1063, 1442]

LITERATURE POINTERS:
  Description [1243, 1645, 3348]

DESCRIPTORS:
  Climbing: Climbing ; Conservation Status: Not Threatened ; Further editing: 2005-07 (Americas update) Sokolova IV [3348] ; Habit: Shrub ; Lifespan: Perennial ; Source(s): 1988 (Americas) Zarucchi JL, 1993 (Indian Ocean) Lock JM & Ireland H, 1993 Zarucchi JL

  
NOTES:
  Maxwell later assigned Mauritius specimen to D.megacarpa. [1915]
  Without fruit the identity of the specimen from Mauritius remains doubtful. [1915]

  
BIBLIOGRAPHY:

1063.

  Amshoff, G.J.H., 1939
    Meded.Bot.Mus.Herb.Rijks Univ.Utrecht 52:1-78 S.Amer.Papil..

1224.

  D'Arcy, W.G., 1987
    Monogr.Syst.Botany Missouri Botanical Garden. Flora Panama.

1243.

  Dwyer, J.D. et al., 1980
    Ann.Missouri Bot.Gard.67(3):523-818 ...Papilionoideae

1367.

  Janzen, D.H. & Liesner, R., 1980
    Brenesia 18:15-90 Check-list Lowl.GuanacasteProv.Costa Rica

1645.

  Standley, P.C. & Steyermark, J.A, 1946
    Fieldiana, Bot. 24(5):1-425 Leguminosae

1915.

  Polhill, R, M., 1990
    Legumineuses.In:Flore des Mascareignes,Vol 80.J. Bosser et a

2156.

  Berendsohn, W.G. & AranivaGonza, 1979
    Cuscatlania 1(2):1-16

2285.

  Boggan, V. et al., 1993
    Checklist of plants of the Guianas. Univ.Guyana. Georgetown.

3348.

  Stevens, W.D., et al., 2001
    Flora de Nicaragua,85(2)...Missouri Bot.Gard.Press
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