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Dioclea wilsonii Standl.

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HIGHER TAXON: Phaseoleae

GENUS: Dioclea Kunth

Dioclea wilsonii Standl. [Preferred name]
    Dioclea altissima Rock {Synonym}

  
VERNACULAR NAME:
  Vahikarabo [3402]; Vahimberana [3402]

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION:
  Caribbean
Caribbean-TRP (U) [1222, 1461]
  Central America
Belize (N) [1222, 1242, 1461]; Guatemala (N) [1461, 1639]; Honduras (N) [1243, 1461, 1639]; Mexico(South East) (N) [1117, 1637]; Nicaragua (N) [1461, 3348]; Panama (N) [1222, 1224, 1243, 1461, 1467]
  Indian Ocean
Madagascar (N) [1461, 1982, 3402]; Mauritius (I) [1915]; Rodrigues (I) [3060]
  Pacific Ocean
Hawaii (U) [1461]
  South America
Brazil (N) [1222, 1461]; Colombia (N) [1461]; French Guiana (N) [1461]; Guyana (N) [1461]; Surinam (N) [2285]; Venezuela (N) [1461]

LITERATURE POINTERS:
  Description [1467, 3348, 3402] ; Illustration [3402]

DESCRIPTORS:
  Climbing: Climbing [3402] ; Conservation Status: Not Threatened ; Further editing: 2005-07 (Americas update) Sokolova IV [3348] ; Habit: Shrub [3402] ; Lifespan: Perennial [3402] ; Source(s): 1988 (Americas) Zarucchi JL, 1993 (Indian Ocean) Lock JM & Ireland H, 1993 Zarucchi JL, 2003-11 (Madagascar) Novoselova MS extract, 2005 (Indian Ocean) Lock JM & Ireland H (JS2005)

  
NOTES:
  Cadet collection could be D.wilsonii or D.megacarpa (see also D.megacarpa). [3060]
  One specimen collected by Cadet and naturalised on Rodrigues, is impossible to [1915]
  identify and is probably D. wilsonii Standley or D. megacarpa Rolfe. [1915]

  
BIBLIOGRAPHY:

1117.

  Breedlove, D.E., 1986
    Listados Floristicos de Mexico 4:90-112 Flora de Chiapas

1222.

  Croat, T.B., 1978
    Stanford Univ. Press Fl. Barro Colorado Island

1243.

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

1461.

  Maxwell, R.H., 1969
    Ph.D. Dissert.(Southern Illinois Univ.-Carbondale).Dioclea

1467.

  Maxwell, R.H., 1981
    Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 67(3):663-675 Dioclea

1637.

  SousaS., M. & CabreraC., E.F., 1983
    Listados Floristicos de Mexico 2:31-38 Flora de Quintana Roo

1915.

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

1982.

  Du Puy, D.J., 1993
    Legumes of Madagascar. Typescripte.

2285.

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

3060.

  Strahm, W., 1989
    Plant Red Data Book for Rodrigues

3348.

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

3402.

  Du Puy, D.J. et al., 2002
    The Leguminosae of Madagascar. RBG Kew.
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